Pancit Canton Guisado

Pancit canton guisado is a savory vegetable filled Filipino noodle dish where canton noodles are stir fried with chicken, chicken liver, cabbage, carrot, green beans, squid balls in a sauce made with soy sauce, oyster sauce. garlic, onion and fish sauce. The list of pancit canton guisado ingredients might look simple but it really packs a punch to the taste buds and really fills you up. You’re sure to get all the healthy goodness from the vegetables, protein from the chicken, iron from liver, and a bit of carbs from the noodles to keep you active for the day.

Pancit Canton Guisado Recipe

Ingredients:

• 500 grams canton noodles
• 250 grams chicken (sliced)
• 250 grams chicken liver (sliced)
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons oyster sauce
• 1 small head cabbage (chopped)
• 1 medium carrot (sliced into strips)
• 5 cloves of garlic (chopped)
• 1 medium onion (chopped)
• 10 pieces squid balls (sliced in half)
• ½ cup green beans (sliced)
• 1 tablespoon fish sauce
• oil (for sauteing)

Directions:

1. Heat some oil in a pan. Add the squid balls and then fry them until light brown. Set aside.
2. Using the same pan, add the garlic and onions. Saute them for a few minutes until aromatic before adding the chicken. Once the chicken changes color, add the chicken liver. Saute them for a few minutes the liver changes color.
3. Add carrots, season with some salt and pepper. Add the green beans. Cover the pot and let this cook for 3 to 5 minutes before adding the sliced bell peppers and cabbage. Saute gently until the cabbage are half cooked.
4. Remove the veggies from the pan and set aside. Using the same pan, add some water, soy sauce, black pepper, and the chicken broth cube. Stir gently and let it boil.
5. Add the canton noodles into the broth. Submerge them to cook and soften. You may need to stir the noodles a few times. Let this cook until the sauce dries up.
6. Once the sauce has dried, add the oyster sauce, fried squidballs and the mixed veggies. Toss gently until all ingredients are well distributed. Once all the ingredients come together, turn the heat off.
7. Transfer the pancit canton guisado to a serving plate. Enjoy this as it is or have it with some slices of loaf bread. Don’t forget to drizzle some calamansi juice before eating. Yum!

What are Canton Noodles ?

Canton noodles is one among the varieties of noodles which are commonly cooked stir fried instead of being used in soups or stews. According to history notes; Pancit Canton is the Filipino adaptation of the Chinese ‘Chow Mein’ or stir fried noodles. The resemblance is uncanny and both noodles has quite similar flavors. The original pancit canton recipe is believed to be originated in the Canton City of Guangzhou, China. Among the dishes highly influenced by the Chinese cuisine, pancit canton guisado was truly a Pinoy favorite as it is often served in celebrations. It’s even associated to the belief that eating noodles on birthday signifies your or the family’s wish for the birthday celebrant to live a long happy life.

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How to make Pancit Canton Guisado

Pancit canton is a classic dish that you can usually find being made or bought during big and small celebrations. From birthdays, graduations, fiestas, or special holidays. This traditional dish is still being made by many households, with the commercialized instant pancit canton noodles being more favorable due to these needing only 3 minutes to cook. Many who are too tired to cook or feel time restricted might eat a pack or 5 over the course of the week. But this simple and easy saucy pancit canton guisado recipe will surely be a better and healthier alternative. You only need to cook a big batch on the weekend to enjoy for the next week or until the week after. It’s also customizable which makes it easier to fit your diet or make it more affordable health-wise.

To make a classic savory pancit canton recipe start with cooking some squidballs or your choice of cured meats. Setting these aside to create your healthy base of vegetables; sauteing garlic and onions, then chicken bits until the chicken changes in color. But what makes this a special pancit canton guisado recipe ( or “Pancit Canton Guisado with chicken Liver” ) is the addition of the chicken liver, that not only adds iron into the body but gives it a unique creamy texture. Mix the liver until it changes in color. Adding color to the dish are the mix of carrots, green beans, bell peppers, and cabbage. Seasoning with salt and pepper. Once the vegetables feel and look tender then take these out.  Now to make the sauce; pour in water, soy sauce, more pepper, and a chicken broth cube, mixing these together until it simmers and the broth cube dissolves. Add in the canton noodles and mix these gently to let the noodles absorb the sauce. Once the sauce has dried up, pour in the oyster sauce, toss in the vegetables, and squidballs. Take these off the heat then serve as is or with some toppings.

What will make this dish more appetizing? The pancit canton toppings! These noodles are best eaten with a little drizzle of calamansi juice for that nice zest. You can still add seasonings like soy sauce or fish sauce if you like. You can also enjoy this pancit canton the Filipino way- with a side of toasted loaf bread. Yum!

Questions

• Pancit canton guisado calories?

The pancit canton-guisado calories 100g ( or ½ – 1 cup pancit canton guisado calories) are around 102 calories.

• For 1 kilo pancit, is it good for how many people?

It can feed almost 12 to 15 people.

• Additional pancit guisado ingredients :
  • Add more umami into the dish by sauteing in shitake mushrooms and make “Pancit Canton with Shiitake Mushroom”.
  • For those who want to turn this into a seafood dish, replace the chicken and liver with shrimp, with fish, or squid to create a delectable “Pancit Canton Guisado with Shrimp” recipe.
  • Aside from adding more ingredients to the dish. You can also choose to make vegetable pancit canton or “Pancit Chopsuey Recipe” by removing the meats like the chicken and the liver in the recipe and just using the vegetables. You can also add squash for a “Squash Pancit Canton recipe”.

• Can you use other noodles?
  • You can also use sotanghon or cellophane noodles for Sotanghon Canton Guisado recipe. These are a bit healthier and are made of mung bean starch.
  • Pancit Bihon Canton Guisado is another gluten free alternative, since these are a variety of rice noodles. This pancit canton bihon recipe will have a more bouncier texture and are also as filling as the pancit canton.
  • The Pancit Miki Guisado recipe is great for those who like using egg noodles.
  • If you want to cook pancit canton noodles with different types of noodles try mixing the miki noodles with sotanghon noodles for a Miki sotanghon guisado Recipe.
  • If you want an instant noodle dish with more vegetables. You might just need a pack or 3 of lucky me noodles to use these instead for a “Lucky Me Pancit Canton recipe”

• Best partner for pancit canton?

Serve with freshly baked or toasted bread on the side like pandesal or loaf bread. Some who really want more carbs into their diet might add more rice on the side. But to really complete the set you can have a simple soup with an iced drink.

Try our other Pancit recipes here : 

• Pancit Canton Recipe
• Pancit Chami ( sweet and spicy )
• Bihon Canton Guisado
• Pancit Sotanghon
• Pancit Miki

Pancit Canton Guisado Recipe Tagalog

Mga Sangkap:

• 500 grams canton noodles
• 250 grams manok (hiniwa)
• 250 grams atay ng manok (hiniwa)
• 3 kutsarang toyo
• 3 kutsarang oyster sauce
• 1 maliit na repolyo (hiniwa)
• 1 carrot (hiniwa ng strips)
• 5 butil ng bawang (hiniwa)
• 1 sibuyas (hiniwa)
• 10 pirasong squid balls (hinati)
• ½ tasang green beans (hiniwa)
• 1 kutsarang patis
• mantika (pang gisa)

Paano Lutuin:

1. Magpainit ng mantika. Iprito ang mga squid balls hanggang maging light brown. Isantabi.
2. Gamit ang parehong kawali, igisa ang sibuyas at bawang ng ilang minuto hanggang maging light brown. Saka ilagay ang manok at igisa hanggang maging light brown. Sunod na ilagay ang atay ng manok at gisahin hanggang mag iba ang kulay.
3. Ilagay ang mga carrot strips. Timplahan ito ng asin at paminta. Ilagay ang mga green beans. Takpan ang kawali at hayaan itong maluto ng 3 hanggang 5 minuto bago ilagay ang bell peppers at repolyo. Igisa ang mga ito hanggang halos maluto na ang repolyo.
4. Alisin ang mga gulay sa kawali at isantabi sa ibang lalagyan. Gamit ang parehong kawali, maglagay ng tubig, toyo, paminta at ang chicken broth cube. Haluin ng konti at pakuluan.
5. Ilagay ang canton noodles sa kawali at ilubog ang mga ito sa sabaw para maluto. Haluin ng ilang beses ang noodles para lumambot lahat ng sabay sabay. Lutuin lang ito hanggang maiga ang sabaw. 
6. Kapag iga na ang sabaw, ilagay ang oyster sauce, pritong squid balls at ang mixed veggies. Haluin ng mabuti. Kapag luto na, patayin ang apoy.
7. Ilipat ang pancit canton guisado sa serving plate. Samahan ito ng kalamansi kapag ihahain na. Samahan ito ng loaf bread. Yum!