Why use Ginger ? The Ginger (Zingber officinale) is a flowering plant native to Asia, where the whole ginger or ginger roots are used as a spice and folk medicine. This knobby, tender, aromatic herbaceous perennial plant, is a popular home remedy used to cure stomach pain, sore throat, and nausea. These are also, used…
Chicken mechado is a tomato-based chicken stew wherein chicken pieces are braised and slow-cooked in tomato gravy together with potatoes, carrots and bell peppers until they are soft and falls of the bone. In this yummy kitchen Chicken mechado recipe will show you how to cook Chicken mechado in very easy and simple steps. This…
Ginataang alimasag is a popular Filipino crab dish where large crabs, string beans and squash are cooked in a creamy coconut milk sauce made by coconut milk, onion, ginger, garlic, chili flakes, fish sauce, pepper, shrimp paste and oil. This dish is believed to have originated in Batanes but is now widely enjoyed all throughout…
Pork asado is a sweet pork dish popular in Philippines, where cooked pork is served with a a sweet tomato based sauce made with tomatoes, onion, garlic, liver spread, soy sauce, bay leaves, peppercorns, tomato paste, calamansi juice, sugar, chili flakes and salt. This Kapampangan version of the pork asado is mostly favoured due to…
Pork Pata Kare Kare is a classic Filipino stew where sliced pork pata pieces are cooked in a nutty yellow thick peanut sauce made with peanuts, onion, garlic, pechay, string beans, eggplant, ground rice, annatto seeds and, cooking oil. This dish much affordable and delicious and large chunks of pata are served with green string…
The Eggplant, a fruit thats part of the nightshade family of Solanaceae species. This family includes bell peppers, white potatoes, and tomatoes. This is a seasonal vegetable planted in the second half of spring, growing in loam or sandy loam soil. Technically a fruit but treated and cooked as a vegetable, providing a deliciously good…
Ube tikoy rolls is a Filipino delicacy sweet treat made with glutinous rice flour, sugar, all purpose flour, salt, vanilla extract, coconut milk and ube flavour rolled in alternating layers of sweet and taro-flavoured rolled into perfection and sprinkled with sesame seeds. This sweet delight is patterned from the famous Chinese tikoy, usually sold during…
Ube maja blanca is is a popular Filipino coconut pudding made with corn starch, coconut milk, sugar, corn kernels, cheese, ube flavoured condensed milk and violet food colour. It is a sweet and creamy treat that bases its flavour on the ultimate combination of corn and coconut milk. Aside from this, the texture of this…
Lumpiang itlog or Egg lumpia shanghai is the newest category of lumpia, that is filled with a mixture made with eggs, onion, carrots bell pepper, mayonnaise, pepper and salt. The above creamy eggs mixture is wrapped in a lumpia wrapper and fried in oil to make a scrumptious lumpiang egg. The best thing that this…
Bangus or Milkfish ? The national fish of the Philippines, the Bangus or ‘Milkfish’ or ‘Chanos chanos’ in English, is part of the Chanidae family that lives around the Pacific and Indian Ocean. A popular fish in Southeast Asia, these have a streamlined and symmetrical appearance with a fairly large caudal fin, and can grow…
