Lapaz Batchoy
How to cook Lapaz Batchoy
Ingredients:
Broth:
This is the most essential part of the Batchoy, preparing the right
broth, I’m including the traditional way of doing it, it’s up to you to
make some of the ingredients optional.
- Beef Shank (With bone in and Marrow)
- Pork neck bones
- Pork Shoulder
- Chicken bones for stock
- Pork Liver (optional but traditional)
- Pork small intestines (optional but traditional)
- fish bagoong (optional but traditional) or crushed shrimp heads
- Garlic minced
- Scallions
- Shallots
- Chicharon
- Miki (Round Egg noodles)
- AJINOMOTO (I would like to say this as optional, but if you want the
original taste you have to have it or some substitute sugar with it)
Procedure:
Broth
- In a pot brown some garlic and take out
- Sautee the bagoong and shallots
- Add the meat (beef, pork bones, chicken bones etc) and saute for a bit
- Add water, boil and turn to simmer
- Once the pork shoulder, liver and intestines are done take out from the pot, drain and set aside
- Continue to boil the bones, add fresh garlic, sea salt
* sachi twist: fry or grill the liver instead of boiling and top the noodles with it later
Noodles and toppings
- Cook egg noodles according to packaging, drain and transfer to bowl.
In Iloilo the Miki is already cooked so you just rinse it.
- chop the pork shoulder, liver and intestines and top the noodles with it
- Chop some scallions, crush the chicharon and top noodles with it
- add the crunchy browned garlic and pour broth over it. If desired add the bone marrow to your bowl.
Chicken Inasal
Chicken Inasal - is a grilled chicken dish and one of the well known Ilonggo dishes. This is done by marinating chicken pieces in a unique blend of spices and grilling them until done.
How to cook chicken Inasal
Ingredients:
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1 kg (1000 g) | whole chicken, cut into halves or vserving pieces |
3 tbsp (36.6 g) | atsuete seeds, soaked in 3 tbsp hot water and strained |
1 tbsp (10 g) | sinigang mix powder |
1/2 tsp (1 g) | pepper | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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2 stalks (38 g) | tanglad, pounded |
1 tbsp (14 g) | minced garlic |
1 tsp (3.2 g) | minced ginger |
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- sea salt (we Ilonggos,
just like other Filipinos, don’t measure like the westerners do.
Tantya-tantya lang (just estimate). Taste the marinade for the
saltiness).
- garlic, crushed well
- sugar, brown or white will do (taste the marinade, when its sweet, that’s it)
- a bottle of Sprite or 7-up
- soy sauce (some use this sparingly; others don’t include it at all)
- black pepper (optional)
- vetsin
or monosodium glutamate (personally, i have banned it from all my
cooking but since we’re talking about the typical inasal recipe in
Iloilo, well, I should say, Ilonggos in general like putting vetsin into
their cooking)
- 2-3 pieces calamansi (optional too or it will border on the Bacolod version)
- just
a little langgaw or vinegar (some manug-inasal put this to preserve the
meat, in case it will have to stay longer on the shelf)
- about a kilo of chicken (that’s 4 basic cuts–2 pecho (breast + wing) & 2 paa (leg+ thigh) and the remaining parts)
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Vegetables soup of ilonggo
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Vegetable soup-is a healthy dish and very rich in fiber which is very important in our digestion. Laswa is best served immediately while the vegetables are still firm. It is a great side dish for anything fried especially with fried fish or shrimp
Ingredients
- Alugbati
- Malunggay
- Talbos ng kamote
- saluyot
- local spinach or kulitis
- green papaya (unripe)
- okra
- eggplant
- squash
- takway
- shrimp
- lemon grass
- tomatoes
- red onions
- salt
- water
Procedure:
- 1. In a pot, bring water to a boil
- add tomatoes, shrimps, and onions, simmer for 5 minutes
- add squash, takway, and papaya, simmer for 5 minutes
- add eggplant simmer for 3 minutes
- add all the leafy vegetables and tanglad
- add salt - to taste ( or patis – fish sauce)
- serve hot in a bowl
Ilonggo's sweet desserts
Maja Blanca
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milk, cornstarch, and sugar. Often called Coconut Pudding, this luscious
dessert is easy to make and the ingredients are very common.Unknown to
many, the original Maja Blanca Recipe does not include corn and milk. In
this recipe, I added whole sweet kernel corn and condensed milk for
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Ingredients
- 4 cups coconut milk
- 3/4 cup cornstarch
- 14 ounces condensed milk
- 3/4 cup fresh milk
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 15 ounces whole sweet kernel corn
- 5 tbsp toasted grated coconut
Cooking Procedure
- Pour the coconut milk in a cooking pot and bring to a boil.
- Add the sugar, condensed milk, and whole sweet kernel corn then stir until all the ingredients are evenly distributed.
- Simmer for 8 minutes
- Combine the fresh milk and cornstarch then whisk until the cornstarch is diluted
- Pour the fresh milk and cornstarch mixture in the cooking pot and stir thoroughly.
- Allow to cook while stirring until the mixture reaches your desired thickness
- Pour the mixture in a serving tray then arrange and flatten the top using a flat tool such as a wooden spatula
- Allow to cool down then refrigerate for at least 1 hour
- Garnish with toasted grated coconut (or latik if available)
- Serve cold. Share and enjoy!
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Yema Cake
Ingredients :
1-1/2 cup of sweetened condensed milk
2 cup of powdered full cream milk
1 50-g. pack of coconut cream powder
1 egg yolk
1 tbsp. of butter, softened
a cup of white sugar
1 ready made chiffon cake
Procedure :
Pour the condensed milk into a small saucepan. Set the fire to medium to heat it gently. Please do not make the mixture boils.
After
you have beaten the egg yolk in a bowl, pour in the half of the heated
condensed milk into the bowl and stir to blend in the egg yolk and add
all the coconut cream.
Pour the mixture of milk, coconut and egg
into the pan and just continue cooking. Stir and scrap the sides and
bottom of the pan to prevent discolor or damage texture.
When the
mixture thickens a bit, place the powdered milk in a large mixing bowl.
Pour in the egg-coconut cream-milk mixture. Add the butter and stir it
until texture is ok and smooth. While the mixture is still in semi
liquid form, put it on top and at the sides of the chiffon cake like a
usual icing. Dress it up with white Icing to make it look better