Black Peppered Prawns Pinoy Style

Black Peppered Prawns Pinoy Style. I the tradition of Black Peppered Crab I am today sharing a version of Black Peppered Prawns Pinoy Style. I used whole shell on large prawns for this recipe. I wanted to eat the prawns using my hand. Eating with your hands is a Pinoy thing that we really enjoy when eating shelled seafood in our own dining table. Now it you wish to remove the shell of

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Tanguigue Steak Paksiw with Eggplant

Tanguigue Steak Paksiw with Eggplant. Paksiw na isda is often cooked topped with vegetables usually eggplant. The eggplants are cooked or steamed from the vapors of the cooking liquid of fish paksiw. The vegetables juices dripped and are infused to the paksiw broth adding an additional layer of flavors to the Paksiw na Isda. Our Tanguigue Steak Paksiw with Eggplant post today is my

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Meatless Pinakbet, Fish Pinakbet

Meatless Pinakbet, Fish Pinakbet. This is my take of meatless pinakbet. Instead of using pork I used fried tanguigue cubes. I am sharing my Fish Pinakbet in time for the Holy Week or Lenten Season. To make my Meatless Pinakbet, Fish Pinakbet I have to cut the tanguigue steak slices in to serving pieces cubes. The fish is fried to a crisp to hold together the fish and to prevent it from

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Fried Fish Fillet with Mushroom Sauce

Fried Fish Fillet with Mushroom Sauce. In observance of the Holy Week specifically on Good Friday most of us will be keeping away with meat dishes. Traditionally most Pinoy will be having mostly fish or meat free dishes. If you are looking for something different, today I want to share my first Holy Week fish dish. Fried Fish Fillet with Mushroom Sauce is simple and easy to prepare. The base

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Adobong Pork Chop

Adobong Pork Chop. If you are a regular reader of OPC you have provably read my post on Chicken Adobo, Food Safari Chef Ricky Ocampo’s Recipe. Today I am posting a similar post but this time instead of using chicken on the recipe I used pork chops. Cooking is similar to that adobo cooking technique of frying instead of braising the meat. The pork chops are first pan fried before adding

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Pork with Spring Onion Stirfry

Pork with Spring Onion Stirfry. I can no longer count how many stirfry dishes I have shared. I just can’t help it. Stirfry dishes are easy to make and are always a hit. It is one of the dishes that you cannot go wrong literally. Stirfry are popular particularly is Asian cooking. Today’s Pork with Spring Onion Stirfry requires minimal ingredients. However it is packed with flavors.

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Snapper Fillet Pinoy Escabeche Style

Snapper Fillet Pinoy Escabeche Style. I am still having some of the snapper fillet that I used on my Fried Snapper Pinoy Bistek Style. Today I pan fry and cooked them Pinoy escabeche style. Fish escabeche Pinoy style is simplier version of Sweet and Sour dish. It requires few ingredients. It is tasty sweet, salty and gingery. The fish is first fried either crispy or just pan fried.

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Pansit Sotanghon with Roast Chicken Breast

Pansit Sotanghon with Roast Chicken Breast. Most often we reserved the breast part of our roast chicken or lechon manok for a planned Pansit dish. Pansit Sotanghon with Roast Chicken Breast is not a new recipe. Most likely you have already cooked pansit sotanghon using your leftover lechon manok. Most of my readers may not need this recipe but again for those who are learning how to cook.

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Fried Snapper Pinoy Bistek Style

Fried Snapper Pinoy Bistek Style. I have cooked this similar dish using salmon fillets before. Check that post of Fried Salmon Pinoy Bistek Style. Cooking is definitely exactly the same.  Similar to the salmon recipe our Fried Snapper Pinoy Bistek Style was cooked perfectly. The pictures speaks for itself… a thousand words! Of course beside good photos the dish came out really great. It is

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Pinoy Omelet

Pinoy Omelet. The Pinoy omelet is one of the comport food which brings back childhood memories. It is a regular breakfast fare with fried rice that I grow up with. I am pretty sure that most Pinoy would have memories of the Pinoy omelet. The Pinoy omelet is made up of sautéed tomatoes and onions and mixed with beaten egg, cooked omelet as in torta style or scrambled. Cooking is fairly

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Pork Adobo with Coca Cola

Pork Adobo with Coca Cola is not your regular adobo. I am not even sure if it should be called adobo at all. Our Pork Adobo with Coca Cola is made up of pork belly with rib bones braised with vinegar, some tomato paste and coca cola beverage drink.  We Pinoy have always been using carbonated drink in some of our dishes. We use carbonated drinks on our cooking for the reasons that they

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Pork Gisantes and Garbanzos

Pork Gisantes and Garbanzos. This dish is an adaptation to Pork Guisantes. Pork Guisantes is not your usual home dish. It is most likely serve in Fiestas. At home I rather cook menudo or afritada. To make the Pork Guisantes more inviting I tweaked the recipe by adding garbanzos to the recipe. I myself like garbanzos better that green peas. Garbanzos are crunchier and add more texture to the

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Pork and Asparagus with Oyster Sauce

Pork and Asparagus with Oyster Sauce. Stir-fry dishes are easy are quick and easy to prepare. Stir-fry could be a combination of any tender meats or seafood with vegetable and with a choice of savory sauce.  Today I would like to share another variety of a Pinoy style stir fry dish, Pork and Asparagus with Oyster Sauce. It is made up of pork loin and some asparagus stir fried with

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Pinoy Burger Steak with Onions and Oyster Sauce

Pinoy Burger Steak with Onions and Oyster Sauce. Here is my take of burger steak with onions and oyster sauce. First of all find a good beef burger. Panfry the beef burgers with using just some oil, just enough to keep the burger from not sticking to the pan. Cover the frying pan to evenly cook the burger steak. Now using the same pan, fry some onion rings. Now simmer the fried onion and the

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Ginisang Kamatis at Itlog

Ginisang Kamatis at Itlog is a Pinoy version of scrambled egg with tomatoes and onions. It is a quick Pinoy breakfast fare served with garlic fried rice or pandesal. It is popular and easy to prepare. Because of the ease to cook, it is ideal for those who have limited time to cook for breakfast but want to have some variety on their fried eggs. Most of my readers may have cooked

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Adobong Baka sa Gata

Adobong Baka sa Gata. I have never cooked Ginataang Baka before. Today I tried to cook one. There is some cube cut beef that was lying in the fridge for some time now. All I have in the pantry that is useful for a new recipe is a can of coconut cream. I am intimidated to cooked Ginataang Baka in the past. I have to get over it so I decided to cook Adobong Baka sa Gata. To make the dish

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Tortang Giniling

Tortang Giniling is a Pinoy classic dish. It is inexpensive and easy to prepare.  Tortang giniling are best for baon for the reason that it does not have sauce and it has a longer shelf life. All that is needed is a banana ketchup dip. When I was in school the dish was a regular pack lunch in school. Tortang giniling is served also during breakfasts and of course garlic fried rice. To

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Eggplant Pinoy Bistek

Eggplant Pinoy Bistek is another OPC’s innovative Pinoy dish that is simple, economical and most of all very yummy that suit the Pinoy palate. For this recipe, I used the large classic eggplant. Sliced the eggplant crosswise into thin round slices. I then fried the slices in batches. Please be aware that the eggplant will absorbed the oil during frying. Now if you are not into very

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Beef with Garlic Stem Stirfry

Beef with Garlic Stem Stirfry. Garlic stem may not be normally found in Public Markets or most supermarket in Manila. I do regular see them at South Supermarket in Filinvest Alabang. When they are available or in season I regularly buy them for my stirfry dishes. In Fact I have already posted a pork stirfry with garlic several years back. Check my Pork with Garlic Stem Stirfry if you like to

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Ginataang Tulingan Steak with Pechay

Ginataang Tulingan Steak with Pechay. I had this large sized tulingan steak that was sitting in the freezer for some time. I decided to cooked ultimately cooked it with coconut milk with some pechay that are similarly in the refrigerator for a couple of days already.  For my coconut milk I used the fresh one from a wet market near our home. The coconut milk was freshly extracted using

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