Spring Rolls Recipe

Spring rolls or Lumpia Recipe

Ingedients:

• 500 g mince meat (meat of your preference)
• 3 cloves garlic , crushed
• 1 whole chopped onion
• 1/2 cup thinly sliced beans
• 1 carrot minced
• 5 leaves of cabbage thinly sliced
• cooking oil
• spring roll wrappers
• salt 
• pepper

Method:

1. In a pan, cook mince meat until it looks pale brown. Set aside.
2. In a separate pan, saute garlic and onion until translucent.
3. Add the cooked mince meat, stir in the carrots and beans.
4. Add the cabbage and stir well.
5. Salt and pepper to taste, and stir well until half cooked. Let it cool.
6. Prepare the spring roll wrappers.
7. Place two tablespoons of the mixture on each wrapper.
8. Fold the side and roll and tuck in sealing it water to the end.
9. Heat oil in a pan for deep frying.
10. Deep fry the rolls in batches for 1 to 2 minutes or until golden brown in color.
11. Drain.
12. Serve and enjoy!

Stuffed Cabbage Rolls Recipe

Stuffed Cabbage Rolls Recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1 whole cabbage
• 1 kg minced meat
• 2 eggs
• 4 tbsp milk
• 1 tsp nutmeg
• 1 cup bread crumbs
• 2 tbsp all purpose flour
• oil
• 1 large onion, sliced and diced
• 2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp black pepper
• orange zest

   For Sauce:

• 1 can diced tomatoes
• 400 ml chicken stock 
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 tbsp white wine
• 25 gm butter

Procedure:

1. Saute onion until translucent.
2. In a bowl, mix onion into the minced meat.
3. Add the eggs, nutmeg,milk, bread crumbs, salt and pepper. Add some orange zest.
4. Mix well. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
5. Bring a pot to boil with 2 or more liters of water depending on the size of the cabbage.
6. Cut the head of the cabbage for easy separation of the leaves.
7. Put the whole cabbage in the boiling pot make sure its all soaked.
8. Let it boil for five minutes.
9. Prepare a separate bowl with cold water and ice.
10. Separate the leaves without breaking it and one by one transfer into the cold water.
11. Need at least 12-15 leaves.
12. Drain the cabbage leaves and dry in the salad spinner.
13. Cut the middle stalk of the leaf.
14. Sprinkle with flour and place minced meat mix on it about a tbsp each depends on what size you like.
15. Roll the leaf, make sure its tightly sealed. A toothpick can be used to secure the egdes.
16. In a separate pan, saute garlic and bay leaves.
17. Add the diced tomatoes and white wine. In a medium low heat, stir well.
18. Lay the cabbage rolls.
19. Pour in the chicken stock.
20. Let boil and put the lid on.
21. Let simmer in a low heat for 30 minutes.
22. Spread the butter on top.
23. Serve hot with a dip of soy sauce and lemon.
24. Serve and enjoy!

Kare - Kare Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 kg oxtail or beef meat as substitute
• 1 small flower bud of banana or ( puso ng saging), sliced
• 1 bunch of pechay ( bok choy)
• 10 pieces of beans ( cut about 2 inches in length)
• 3 pieces eggplant, sliced
• 1/2 cup ground peanuts
• 3 tbsp. peanut butter
• 2 tbsp shrimp paste
• 750 ml water
• Annatto seed soaked in water
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 onion chopped
• salt and pepper

Method:

1. Bring water to boil in a pot then add oxtail and onion, simmer for up to 2 hours until it becomes tender.
2. Add the peanuts, peanut butter and water from annatto seed mixture.
3. Simmer for another 10 minutes.
4. In a separate pan, saute garlic then put banana flower bud, eggplant and beans. Cook for 7 minutes.
5. Add the vegetables in a pot where the oxtail or meat is.
6. Salt and pepper to taste.
7. Lastly add the pechay and put the lid on and turn off heat. The steam will cook the leafy part of the pechay.
8. Serve with shrimp paste on top.
9. Enjoy!

Filipino Style Spaghetti

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most Filipinos love their own style of cooking spaghetti which is a little bit of sweetness in it. So to those who want to try and cook Filipino Style Spaghetti here is the quick recipe;

 

 

Ingredients:

• cooking oil
• 1 onion , chopped
• 100 grams bacon, diced
• 250 grams ground pork,or ground beef
• 5 pieces hotdogs , sliced
• 500 ml tomato sauce
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/4 cup tomato ketchup
• 1 tbsp. sugar
• salt and pepper
• 500 grams spaghetti
• grated cheese

 

 

Cooking Method:

1. In a pot put the ground meat and cooked it until brown.
2. Add some oil and add onion.
3. In a separate pan, fry the bacon and hotdog until golden brown or toasted.
4. Add the ground meat.
5. Pour in the tomato sauce, water ketchup and sugar. Let it boil then simmer on low heat for 40 minutes.
6. Salt and pepper to taste.
7. While sauce is in simmer, cook the spaghetti until al dente or per packaging instruction.
8. Drain spaghetti and rinse it with hot water. Drain again after rinsing water.
9. Combine sauce and cooked spaghetti together and grate plenty of cheese on top.
10.  Best serve when chilled or hot.
11. Enjoy!

Kare Kare

Ingredients:
   

1 kg Pork or Beef  hocks or Ox tail ,cut into 2" lengths ( I used beef hocks)

6 tbsp. peanut butter

10 pcs siitaw or long beans (cut 3" length)

2 bundles bokchoy

2 cloves garlic (crushed)

1 medium onion (sliced)

1 tsp. achuete powder for colouring 

1 medium eggplant (cut into 6 pieces)

1 tbsp. fish sauce

bagoong or shrimp paste  

Method:

1. Boil the pork hocks until soft and tender. Set aside. Reserve the broth. 
2. Saute garlic and onion in a wok. 
3. Add pork hocks and fish sauce. Cook for few minutes.  
4. Add 2 1/2 cups of the pork/beef broth, salt, achuete and peanut butter. Simmer for 5-10 mins. 
5. Add the vegetables and cook until vegetables are tender. Stir occasionally. 
6. SAlt and pepper  to taste.
7. Serve with bagoong or shrimp paste.

Embutido

It is a Filipino Style Meatloaf. So easy to make.

Ingredients:

• 1 kl ground pork
• 6 pieces hotdog cut in quarters lengthwise
• 4 hard boiled eggs, cut in quarters
• 2 pcs raw eggs
• 1/4 cup tomato sauce
• 2 cups grated cheddar cheese
• 1 cup red bell pepper or try capsicum - minced
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 cup minced carrots
• 1 cup minced onion
• 2 cups bread crumbs
• salt and pepper

Procedure:

1. Combine pork, breadcrumbs and raw eggs in a bowl. Mix well.
2. Add the carrots, bell pepper, onion, and cheddar cheese. Mix well.
3. Add the raisins, salt and pepper, tomato sauce and mix well.
4. Place the mixture in an aluminium foil and flatten it.
5. Put in the sliced hotdogs and boiled eggs alternately in the middle of the flattened meat.
6. Roll the aluminium foil to form a tube or cylinder making sure the sausage and egg are in the middle of the mixture.
7. lock or fold the edges of the foil.
8. Place in a steamer and cook for 1 hour.
9. Best when chilled.

Beef Mechado

Ingredients:

•  1 kilo beef chunks with fat
• cooking oil
• 3 medium potatoes( chunks)
• 2 medium carrots ( chunks)
• 1 red bell pepper or capsicum in chunks
• 2 tbsp. soy sauce
• 1 whole minced onion
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 3 pcs bay leaves
• 3 tbsp. tomato paste or 200 ml tomato sauce
• 2 tbsp. fish sauce
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 tsp sugar

Procedure:

1. Boil beef until tender. Set aside and reserve some soup.
2. Pan fry the potatoes, carrots and bell pepper. Once half cooked, remove from pan and set aside.
3. Sauté garlic and onion.
4. Add the beef and fish sauce. Cook for 5 minutes.
5. Add the tomato paste or tomato sauce.
6. Simmer for 3 minutes then add the reserved soup.
7. Add salt and pepper to taste.
8. Let it boil and simmer for 5 minutes covered.
9. Add the vegetables and soy sauce.
10. Cook in low heat until sauce becomes thick.
11. Best serve with rice.