Chicken ginger stew (chicken tinola)

today's lunch and til dinner menu

(while raining outside, hmmm so delicious)

Ingredients:

1 kilo whole chicken, cut into pieces.

1 small young papaya or sayote, cut into small pieces.

2 tablespoons ginger, crushed and slliced into strips

1/2 cup dahon ng sili (chili leaves) or mallunggay leaves

1 liter of water

5 garlic cloves, minced

1 red onion, diced

4 tablespoons oil

2 tablespoons patis (fish sauce)

4 cups of rice stocks

2 strips of lemon grass

Cooking Instructions:

boil separately the chicken with lemongrass in a rice stock until tender.

In a pot, heat oil and sauté ginger, garlic and onion.

add fish sauce and chicken, cover til light brown, Add the chicken stock

Bring to a boil and simmer for about 20 minutes or until chicken is almost done.

Add papaya and continue to simmer for an additional 5 minutes or until papaya softens but not overcooked.

Add sili leaves then turn off the heat.

Serve steaming hot on a bowl with plain rice on the side.

Adobo ala Lestat

chicken pork adobo

i adapted this recipe from my late mother, when i was in highschool, she already taught me on how to cook this famous adobo, but it takes me sometime and years to perfect it, but now i am proud to say that people who tasted my adobo is very satisfied and wants some more.

ingredients:

- 1 kilo, pork, cut into cubes

- 1 kilo, chicken, cut into serving pieces

- 1 cup onions, thinly sliced

- 1 whole bulb, garlic, peeled and crushed

- 4 pcs of tomato, sliced

- 2 large potatoes, cut into cubes

- 2 tablespoon, crack black peppercorn

- 1 cup, soy sauce

- 1/2 cup, vinegar

- 2 teaspon, sugar

- 2 strand, lemon grass (optional)

- 1 tablespoon, salt

- 2 tablespoon fish sauce

Procedure:

*boil separately the potatoes

1. boil the chicken and pork in a 4 cups of water with lemongrass(optional) and 1 tablespoon of salt, until tender.

2. saute in a large pot, garlic, onions, tomato and add fish sauce.

3. add chicken and pork til it turns brown.

4. add 1 cup, chicken and pork broth. (the one you used in boiling chicken and pork)

5. add, potatoes, (the one you boil separately)

6. add soy sauce, vinegar, crack peppercorn and simmer til the vinegar is cooked.

7. add the sugar and simmer for another 5 minutes.

serve it with hot rice! enjoy!