The Filipino dish paksiw na isda is made with fish cooked in a vinegar-based sauce. The dish is typically prepared by marinating fish in vinegar, garlic, salt, peppercorns, and other spices for a few hours before cooking. Afterwards, the fish is simmered in the marinade along with water, more garlic, ginger, and some vegetables like…
This comfort, tasty, and economically budget dish is part of every Filipino meal. Monggo can be paired with different types of ingredients. Some cooks add meat, seafood, dried fish with coconut milk, fried fish, or just vegetables. Even sauteing mainly monggo with some vegetables found in your backyard is already savory and able to solve…
Upo is a kind of vegetable easily found everywhere in the market in the Philippines. Its English name is bottle gourd because it has an elongated shape. It is easy to saute with some meat like chicken, pork and seafood and also this vegetable can be a dish on its own. These cheap vegetables give…
When you talk about “tinola” means it is a soup kind of Filipino dish. It is easy to make. Just pour water into a pot, and let it boil all the ingredients for at least 10 to 15 minutes season with salt and fish sauce. It is a very nutritious clear fish broth and has…
This Filipino sinigang sour soup dish is mainly cooked with shrimp mixed with sampalok as a souring agent. Added with some vegetables. It is a quick, refreshing, simple, and easy recipe with a unique savory and sour taste. It is good in cold weather. For souring agents, you can also use calamansi, santol, green mango,…
This dish is all in one: cooked rice that has been stir-fried in a wok or frying pan and mixed with other ingredients like eggs, meat (pork, chicken, and seafood), and vegetables. Some cooks just stir-fry it with garlic/roasted garlic or saute it with some shrimp paste, some will do tomato fried rice or curry…
There are many ways to cook dulong / silverfish. In case you don’t know yet, it’s a very tiny fish, barely an inch, and quite transparent in appearance. Some people cook them by wrapping them in mango leaves or banana leaves either in a paksiw style (souring taste cook in vinegar/lemon) or steam it. Some…
Pesang dalag (stewed mudfish) is regional Filipino dish whose main ingredient is mudfish, a freshwater fish and vegetable soup, with optional add-ons. Mudfish is not generally found in a typical Filipino market, perhaps due to the more complex process of cleaning and cutting that’s quite easy with salt water counterparts. The taste will largely depend…
Sandoricum koetjape or santol in the Philippines is a tropical fruit grown in Southeast Asia. It contains vitamins B and C provides healing abilities and prevent cardiovascular disease, strokes, and cancer, folate that reduces risk of birth defects and boosts metabolism. As an ingredient, it is famous when cooked as ginataang santol. This recipe though…
Ingredients: Cooking oil for frying 2 medium size fish (tilapia, labahita, salmon, galunggong) – cleaned and washed. salt to sprinkle into the fish (asnan nyo muna) 2 knobs ginger, sliced thinly 10 cloves garlic, minced 1 large yellow onion, peeled and thinly sliced. 2 cups pineapple chunks – reserve the juice 1 small carrot, peeled…