Pork / Chicken Adobo Recipe

Estimated cooking time: 50 minutes.

Adobo Ingredients:

• 1/2 kilo pork cut in cubes + 1/2 kilo chicken, cut into pieces or
• choice of either 1 kilo of pork or 1 kilo of chicken
• 1 head garlic, minced
• 1/2 yellow onion, diced
• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 1 cup vinegar
• 2 cups of water
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 5 laurel leaves (bay leaves)
• 4 tablespoons of cooking oil or olive oil
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 3 tablespoons water

Adobo Cooking Instructions:

• In a big sauce pan or wok, heat 2 tablespoons of oil then sauté the minced garlic and onions.
• Add the pork and chicken to the pan. Add 2 cups of water, 1/4 cup of soy sauce, vinegar, paprika and the bay leaves. Bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes or when meat is tender.
• Remove the pork and chicken from the sauce panand on another pan, heat cooking oil and brown the pork and chicken for a few minutes.
• Mix the browned pork and chicken back to the sauce and add cornstarch dissolved in water to thicken.
• Add salt and/or pepper if desired
• Bring to a boil then simmer for an additional 5 minutes.
• Serve hot with the adobo gravy and rice.

Adobo Cooking Tips:

• You have the option to add crushed ginger to the onions and garlic when sautéing. Ginger adds a unique flavor to your pork/chicken adobo.

Deningdeng

Denengdeng (also called Inabraw) is a dish of Ilocano people of the Philippines. Its main ingredients are vegetables. It is easy to make. It is similar to Pinakbet. It is classified as a bagoong soup based dish. Unlike pinakbet, denengdeng contains fewer vegetables and contains more bagoong base.


You will need the following:

•  1 piece fried or inihaw na tilapia
• 4 cups water
• 1 tablespoon fish bagoong, malabnaw
• 1 piece pork broth cube (or msg and salt to taste or other seasonings)
• 1 cup sitaw, cut into 3-inch lengths
• 2 pieces small eggplants1 cup bulaklak ng kalabasa or squash blossoms)
• 1-2 bundles saluyot (green leaves 2 cups)

Cooking Directions:
      Add fish to boiling water. Simmer for 5 minutes. Stir in fish bagoong and pork broth cube
(or other flavorings/ seasonings). Simmer for 5 more minutes. Remove fish and set aside. Add veggies (sitaw and talong).Cook until tender. Add bulaklak ng kalabasa and saluyot. Cook for 
another 2 minutes. Add the fish and remove the saucepan from heat. Serve.

Another  version in Taglish  with tips of recipe:
 Yes, so easy to cook dinengdeng puro gulay lang kasi. Magpakulo ka lang ng konting tubig, about 1 cup of water, tapos lagyan ng 4-5 tablespoons bagoong. Dapat mas maalat ng konti to enhance the taste of the veggies. Let it boil, saka ilagay ang sitaw, okra, kalabasa, young leaves of sitaw, kamatis and sibuyas. Para tayong kumakanta ng bahay kubo, di ba? Tapos lahukan ng hipon o inihaw na bangus. Walang vetsin, pero pwede lagyan ng half teaspoon brown to enhance taste. Tandaan saglit lang lulutin ito. Mas masarap kung bagong luto. Don’t cover, ihain agad.
 

Other tips:

1. May timing ang mga veggies. usually, isang kulo lang para sa mga dahon-dahon; pinakamatagal lutuin ang seeds o ung may seeds like talong, sunod ang sitaw, okra; tapos kalabasa, patola at sa huli mga dahon-dahon

Maraming combination, pero iwasan magsama ang ampalaya at patola sa isang pagluluto.

2. Konting sabaw lang, di masarap ung tipong nasa swimming pool at lumalangoy ang mga gulay. hehehe

3. Ito ang pinakatatandaan na tips (secret ko ito) : hwag dadamihan ang lulutuin, kailangan medyo bitin para sa susunod.. lagi nilang pananabikan ang iyong dinengdeng. hehehe

Chicken Pochero

 

• What You'll Need:
  • 1/2 kilo beef ribs
  • 1 piece onion, sliced medium size
  • 6 cups water
  • 1 head small repolyo
  • 1/8 kilo Baguio beans
  • 2 pieces kamote or potatoes 
  • 2 pieces banana (cardava0 or saging saba sliced into chunks
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 pieces beef broth cubes or seasonings or flavorings
  •  salt and msg to taste

  • 1/2 cup tomato sauce
  Now Let's Cook:
         Boil beef and onion  in water until tender. Remove beef from broth. In the same broth,

  cook veggies, potato or kamote and saba, then remove from broth. Saute' garlic and onion in another pot. Add the beef, broth cubes or other flavorings or seasonings( if there are no broth cubes)and tomato sauce Simmer. Pour 3 cups of broth. Then add potatoes, saba and veggies.

  Serve hot.