How to make or cook easy recipes of home made pork bola-bola (meatballs)

The purpose of this blog is to share my experience or my opinion to the visitor about Filipino recipe. Some of my friends asked me how to cook meat ball for their assignment in some of their subject and I decided to post here my knowledge in making meatball. For those who did not know meat ball, this recipe is made of ground meat rolled into a small round shape and cooked by frying.

Ingredients:

- 1/2 kilo of ground pork

- 4 to 5 eggs

- 10 tablespoon of all purpose flour

- Salt and group pepper to taste

- 1 Medium sliced of onion

- 1 minced head of garlic

- 2 minced of carrots

- 1 kilo oil enough to frying the meatballs

- Banana Catsup (Optional)

Cooking process:

- In a pan, pour little oil and saute the ground pork until the color changes.

- In a bowl, combine all the ingredients except oil and catsup.

- Mix thoroughly until the texture is even.

- Shape into small balls about bite-size.

- In a pan, heat the oil.

- Deep-fry the meatballs until brown or cooked, about 8-15 minutes depending on the sizes.

- Roll on a paper towel to remove excess oil.

- Put in a platter and serve with catsup on a saucer.

How to make or cook easy recipes of home made kinilaw na tuna (kilawin)

Kinilaw is not really means cooking, its means to cook it using vinegar and this kind of recipe is very popular in some region in Philippines and there are many kind of fish that can be used to make kilawin or kinilaw some of these are cavalla and grouper. Making kinilaw is not complicated to make all you have to have is these ingredients and follow some basic cooking process in making kinilaw. 

Ingredients:

- 1/ 4 kilo of fish like lapu-lapu but this tutorials I use fin tuna.

- 1/2 of crushed galic

- 1 sliced medium size of ginger

- 1 sliced of onion

- 2 green chili pepper being cut in 1/4 thick slice.

- 1 c of vinegar

- 1 red bell pepper

- Salt and pepper to taste

- 1/4 c of lemon juice or kalamansi juice

- 1 c of coconut cream

Cooking process:

- Clean the fish and cut it into cubes and place it in a bowl.

- Add or sprinkle some salt and pepper and mixed it well.

- Add the vinegar and mix again the fish.

- Cover it using any kind of things and chill it for 10 to 15 minutes or more than.

- Darin the fish and add some lemon juice, garlic, chill pepper, bell pepper, ginger, and sliced onion.

- Mixed all the ingredient and chill it again for 30 mins 

- Pour in the coconut cream into the mixed ingredients.

- Serve it to your friends.  

How to make or cook easy recipes of home made sweet munchkins using biscuits

Munchkins is one of my favorite dessert made in biscuit, they are made usually in small round shape and the ingredient are very affordable and always available in any supermarket. This dessert is perfect to share it to your love ones or to your family or maybe to you friends specially in valentines day or any occasion you like. So why not try to make this kind of dessert by your self.

Ingredients:

- 12 pc of crushed biscuit

- 1 can of condense milk

- Desiccated coconut

- Nips and marshmallow or you put chocolate (optional)

Cooking process:

- Mix the condense milk and the crushed biscuit in a big bowl until blended well.

- Get 1 little portion using your spoon or any tool you want and and roll it to your hands to make a round shape and be sure your nips or chocolate well being coated.

- Make more round shape you want and  separate it to a clean plate.

- Once you've finished making all the mixed biscuit into a round shape prepare your desiccated coconut in a clean bowl

-  Roll your munchkins to a desiccated coconut and make sure it well be coated all around the munchkin

- Chill your finished munchkins or you can put it into a fridge.

- Serve it to your friends

How to make or cook easy recipes of pork Embutido with a tomato sauce

Embutido is a recipe from spain, but here in Philippines there are some Embutido recipe made by Filipinos that contain hashed meat, but usually they use pork and they season it with aromatic herb or spices. The word Embutido is a generic term for sausage that being wrapped using the skin of a pig, but this recipe is different from the Spain recipe. We use tomato sauce to add some taste to our Embutidu recipe.

Ingredients:

- 2 pc of eggs

- 1 pc of medium onio that being sliced

- 150 g cheese dog (sausage), diced

- 400 g of ground pork

- 100 g of diced carrot

- 1 pouch of tomato sauce and pineapple tidbits

- 1 pc of diced medium red bell peppery 

- 1 cup of coarsely grated gabi

- 1/4 cup of pickle relish

- 3 tbsp of raisins

- 2 tbsp of liver spread

- 1/4 cup of bread crumbs

- 3/4 cup Aluminum foil

Cooking process:

- Combined the ingredients with 2 tsp iodized fine salt and 1/2 tsp pepper and mix it well.

- Divide mixture for two rolls.

- Wrap each portion of meat mixture in foil the roll.

- Twist both  edges to seal.

- Steam for 1 hour.

- Cool it for 15 to 20 minutes or chill it if desired.

- slice it and serve it for 10 servings

How to make or cook easy recipes of delicious Bulalo with a tomato sauce

Bulalo is one of the best beef recipe in the Philippines. The soup from this recipe is a light colored soup that made in beef shanks and marrow bones until the collagen and fat has melted into a clear broth. This recipe is known specially in the region of southern Luzon. This tutorial or this article today is teaching you how to make a delicious beef bulalo using or adding a tomato sauce. 

Ingredients:

- 1/2 kg of  Beef  kenchi, cut into chunks or square shape
- 1 pc of medium onion sliced
- 1 pc Small ginger sliced
- 1/4 tsp of crushed peppercorn
- 1 pouch of tomato sauce
- 1 stalk of sliced leek
- 1 pc of sliced baguio pechay
- 2 pc of medium ripe saba, peeled and each cut into 3
- 1/4 kg of fresh corn, each is being cut into 3
- 300 g of Potatoes being cut in chunks

Cooking process:

- Combine the beef the onion, ginger,peppercorns and tomato sauce and add 6 cups of water.
- Season it with salt to taste.
- Cover and simmer it until  meat is almost tender.
- Add the corn, saba and potatoes and cook it for another 12 minutes
- And the last part is to add the pechay and leeks and allow it to simmer
- If you think that the pechay is tender, serve the Balulo in 5 servings

How to make or cook easy recipes of delicious pork Sinigang with a tomato sauce

Here is the other revision of making delicious sinigang recipe with a twist , most of our Filipinos sinigang is the best recipe for making pinoy hot and sour soup, but this this time this recipe is delicious not like the original sinigang recipe. Here's how to make delicious sinigang with tomato sauce.


Ingredients:

- 1/2 kg of pork cooped into square size or chunks.
- 1 pc of small onion (sliced)
- 1/2 tbsp of vinegar, and 3 cups of clean water
- 1 pouch of Tomato sauce
- 3 pc sili, 100 g of radish (sliced) and 3 pc of okra
- 1 bunch of kangkong stalks only
- 1 tbsp of sinigang mix powder


Cooking process:

- Combined all he ingredients like water, vinegar, pork and tomato sauce into your pot and simmer it for 30 minutes until the pork is tender.
- Add the radish and siling haba hen simmer it again for about 5 minutes or until the radish is almost cooked.
- The last process is adding you kangkong and add some sinigang mix to sour the soup hen aloow it to simmer
- Serve it to your friends and enjoy eating.

How to make or cook easy recipes of Pinoy style Dinuguan recipe

When I was a kid, I remember my Mom cook this dinuguan recipe made from pig's blood and other pig's intestines. This recipe is being prepare and common during our town festival  because most of the people in our town have their own what we called lechon baboy or roasted pig. Some part of the pig's organs like blood and intestine are separated to make this dinuguan recipe. Now this recipe are being serve also in different version and most of the restaurant along the high have this kind of recipe. This is how you can make the dinuguan recipe made from blood. 

Ingredients:

- 1/2 kilo of pork meat & pork belly 

- 1/4 kilo of pork liver 

- 1/4 kilo of pork intestines

- 1 small of garlic and 1 small of onion 

- 3 pieces laurel leaves

- 1/2 cup vinegar or 1 pouch sinigang mix good for 1 kilo

- 3 tablespoons patis  or 3 tablespoons soy sauce

- 2 cups pig's blood

- 2 tablespoons sugar and 3 tablespoons oil

- 1 teaspoon salt and 4 long green peppers,1/2 teaspoon black pepper, 1 thumb-sized ginger,

Cooking process:

- First is you need to store pig's blood in the fridge.

- Saute  a garlic, ginger, onion using hot oil in your  sauce pan.

- After that add the meat, pork belly and other part of the  intestines.
- Add laurel leaves and saute it for another 4-5 minutes.

- Pour some water just enough to cover the meat, you can add more water if it dries up
- Boiled and simmer it until the port became tender.
- Add the vinegar or sinigang mix and the patis or fish sauce, salt, green peppers and simmer it for another 4-5 minutes.

- After adding all the seasoning, take your pig's blood out of the fridge and put in a clean bowl and mash out or squeeze with your hands the jelly-like blood you see.

- After the blood squeezing, add the blood into the pot then bring to a boil.

- Low the heat of the fire,and simmer for about 6 minutes while stirring.

- The last step is add sugar if you want sweet dinuguan, salt, black pepper to taste.

How to make or cook easy recipes of Pinoy style Batchoy recipe

How to make Batchoy soup recipe? This blog can teach you how you can make Pinoy style Batchoy soup recipe just by following this simple and easy cooking process below. Batchoy soup is usually made in noodle but this noodles is not an ordinary noodles, this noodles is came from La Paz, Iloilo City which Batchoy soup is originated. Some version of Batchoy soup is made from chicken, but this recipe is today is made in pork which common in making Batchoy soup. 

Ingredients:

- 8 cups of pork or chicken stock, divided

- 1 medium of onion and 4 cloves of garlic, chopped in medium size

- 4 tbsp dried shrimps or pork cracklings, eggs (optional)

- 1 tbsp of brown sugar

- 1 tbsp soy sauce

- Crushed pepper and salt to taste

- 250 grams of pork (kasim) that cut into 1 inches 

- 150 grams of pork liver

- 1/2 kilo fresh miki noodles

- 1 piece chicken breast

Cooking process:

- Boiled the pork stock and other  ingredients in a large pot.

- Add the pork kasim, liver, and chicken in the pot. 

- Let it simmer about 20 to 25 minutes or until the pork and other meat became tender.

- Remove the pork, liver, and chicken from pot and set aside and let it cool. 

- Slice the pork, liver, and chicken into thin strips and set aside.

- Strain the stock. 

- To assemble it, place the noodles to your bowl and pour the hot stock over the noodles. 

- Top it with the sliced pork, liver, and chicken. 

- Add some topping like chicharon, fried garlic, fried shallots, and spring onions. 

- If you want ,crack an egg and serve immediately.

How to make or cook easy recipes of Pinoy style Sisig recipe

In Pampanga Sisig means to eat on something sour like eating fruits that dipped into vinegar and salt, This kind of way of eating is applied in cooking kapampangan dishes like meat or specially fried and sizzled chopped bits of pig’s head and liver which is marinated in a lemon liquid or just vinegar and seasoned it with salt and more spices to make the recipe more delicious. Some version in making or cooking Pinoy style Sisig is using fish like tuna or milk fish but this time we use pork to make our fried sizzling  delicious Sisig recipe. 

Ingredients:

- 1 kg pig’s head or mascara

- 1/2 slice of pig’s liver, chopped into small pieces

- 5 small size of onions, finely chopped

- 15 pieces kalamansi (lemon) extracted and strained

- Spring onions (leaves), finely chopped

- 10 pieces red and green chili pepper, finely chopped

- pig’s brain, boiled

- salt, black peeper to taste

- (optional) mayonnaise, eggs, ox brain, pork cracklings, Chicken liver

Cooking process:

- Boiled the pigs head to make sure that all the hair has been removed.

- Boiled the meat in just 15 to 20 minutes or until it become tender and then drain the water carefully.

- Deep fry the meat until the meat become golden brown and crisp.

- Chop the meat into small pieces about 1/2 inches.

- In your Sisig plate, Add all ingredients except the leaves of spring onions and mix it well

- Add up mayonnaise, eggs or chicken liver (ptioanal)

- The last one is to add you chopped spring onion on top of the Sisig. 

This is how to make Sizzling Sisig recipe. 

How to make or cook easy recipes of Pinoy style Afritada

Afritada from Philippines is usually made of chicken stew with tomato sauce, carrots and the bell pepper. This ingredient is the most common recipe in making Afritada. Some Filipino cooker says that making Afritada is very simple than  cooking  kaldereta and Menudo because you cab let the chicken simmer in your stew base. 

Ingredients:

- 2 lbs chicken, cut into serving pieces

- 1 large potato, quartered

- 1 large carrot, sliced

- 1 large bell pepper, sliced

- 1 cup green peas

- 8 ounces tomato sauce

- 4 cloves garlic, minced

- 4 pieces hotdogs, sliced

- 1 medium onion, diced

- 1 1/4 cups chicken broth or stock

- 2 pieces dried bay leaves

- 1 teaspoon granulated white sugar

- 4 tablespoons cooking oil

- Salt and ground black pepper to taste

Cooking process:

- Pour-in cooking oil in a cooking pot or casserole then apply heat.

- Pan-fry the chicken until the color turns light brown (about 3 minutes per side).

- Remove the chicken from the cooking pot.

- On the same cooking pot, sauté garlic and onions.

- Put-in the sliced hotdogs and pan-fried chicken then cook for a minute.

- Pour-in tomato sauce and chicken stock then add bay leaves. Simmer for 30 to 40 minutes.

- Add the potato and carrots then simmer for 7 minutes or until the vegetables are soft.

- Put-in the bell pepper, green peas, salt, sugar, and ground black pepper then cook for 3 minutes more.

- Turn-off heat then transfer to a serving plate.

- Serve with steamed rice. Share and enjoy!