LUTONG PINOY – Easy to Cook Filipino Foods

Shrimp and Pork Siomai Ingredients: 1 kg ground pork (suggested proportion of fat to lean meat is 1:3) or 1 kg Prawn (shrimp) peeled 1/3 cup chopped water chestnuts or turnips (singkamas) 1/3 cup chopped carrots 2 medium or 1 large minced onion(s) bunch of spring onions or leeks 1 egg 5 tablespoons sesame oil [...]

Sweet and Sour Tilapia Ingredients: 5 tilapia (cichlid fish) 1 can pineapple (set aside juice); chunks 1 carrot; cut in strips 1 bell pepper; cut in strips 4 cloves garlic; mined 1 onion; chopped 1/2 tablespoon salt 1 tablespoon sugar 3 tablespoons soy sauce 1/2 cup water 2 tablespoons flour Ground black pepper Cooking oil

Filipino Spaghetti Ingredients:

1 kilo spaghetti noodles
3/4 kilo ground beef
1 carrot; minced
1 small can evaporated milk
1 can liver spread
1/4 kilo hotdog slices
4 cloves garlic; minced
1 onion; minced
2 bottles of banana catsup
1 can tomato sauce
1 cup grated cheese
1 tablespoon sugar
Salt and pepper
Cooking oil

Filipino Spaghetti Procedures:

* Boil spaghetti noodles with salt and cooking oil for 10 minutes. Drain and set aside in a platter.

FOR THE SAUCE MIXTURE:

* Sauté garlic and onion.

* Add ground beef and cook until meat turns light brown. Season with salt and pepper.

* Season with salt and pepper.

* Add banana catsup and tomato sauce.

* Simmer for 10 minutes.

* Add hotdog, carrots, sugar, liver spread and milk.

* Simmer for 5 minutes.

* Pour the mixture on top of the spaghetti noddles. Garnish with grated cheese.