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No Yeast Donuts

Recipe name: Sugar Donuts w/out Yeast  Preparation time: 1 hour  Cooking time: 2-3  minutes  per batch If you're the type of person who doesn't like the taste of yeast in your donuts, this donut recipe will be a good option for you. Enjoy! Ingredients: 4 cups all purpose flour 3/4 cup powdered sugar 4 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 cup milk powder  Water for buttermilk solution 1 tbsp white vinegar 2 eggs 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1 tbsp vanilla essence Procedure:   Preparation of liquid ingredients: To make an alternative for buttermilk, add milk powder in a 1 cup then volume up with water until it's full. Mix well the milk solution. Add white vinegar, mix and set aside. Wait for the vinegar and the milk solution to react. In a separate bowl, beat two eggs until smooth. Add butter/ margarine or vegetable oil and whisk. Add vanilla essence to add sweet aroma for the dough later. Add the milk- vinegar solution. Mix well until smooth. Add the sugar and dissol...

Chicken Barbecue in a Pan

Chicken Barbecue is commonly cook by roasting the chicken in  a grill with a direct fire or heat from burned charcoals. In this recipe the chicken will be cook using just a pan. The output and the taste will be the same as the grilled  version of this chicken barbecue recipe. Recipe: Chicken Barbecue in a Pan Preparation time: 5 minutes Cooking time: 36-40minutes Total servings: 6-8 servings Ingredients: 1/2 tbsp ground black pepper 1/2 tbsp salt 5 tbsp brown sugar 3 tbsp fish sauce 3 tbsp vinegar or lemon juice extract 40ml soysauce 100ml banana ketchup 1/2 medium size onion (minced) 4 pcs garlic (minced) 5 tbsp oil 1/2 kilo chicken (chopped) minced red chilli(optional) First add chicken on a medium size deep pan. Add 40ml of soysauce, 5 tbsp of sugar and 3 tbsp of fish sauce. Next add 1/2 tbsp ground black pepper, 1/2 tbsp of iodized salt, 4 cloves  garlic(minced) and 1/2 medium size onion(minced). Mixed it well, then set burner into low fire. Cook and cover  ...

Vegetable Patties

Craving for  burger but you don't like eating meats? No need to worry, because you can still make patties out of vegetables. Banana blossoms is best known as the main ingredient for vegetable patties, but in this recipe we will be using carrots and squash as  the main ingredients for our patties. Why not try this vegetable patty recipe? Easy to prepare, budget friendly, and most of all it's totally  meatless. Best snack or meal for vegetarians. Ingredients consist of squash which are known to be riched in magnesium, vitamin B6, C, potassium, phosporous and vitamin A and carrots which is rich in potassium, biotin, vitamin K1, an antioxidant and with  beta carotene which are good for the eyesight. See below the ingredients you need and the instructions on how to make this vegetable patties. Ingredients  1 medium size onion(minced) 2 pieces garlic (minced) 1/4 small size squash(minced) 1 small size carrots(minced) 1/2 tbsp ground black pepper 1/2 tbsp salt 1/2 cup...

Chicken Mechado-Plain

Chicken mechado is the perfect meal for children who loves the taste of ketchup in their food. This meal is also like chicken Tinola and chicken adobo that is served by Filipinos during lunch or dinner. This is usually cook with a twist like adding extra hotdogs and bell peppers to make that unique taste. This recipe is adopted during the Spanish era the reason why it was named as chicken "mechado". Mechado from the Spanish word "mecha"  which means wick or a beef stew in tomato sauce with pork strips.  Though it was named after that  Spanish word, the recipe is originally invented by Filipinos in the past. Below are the ingredients you need and the instructions on how to cook plain or basic chicken mechado  because we will not add hotdogs and bell peppers to it. Ingredients : 2tbsp vegetable oil 4 pieces chicken  1 medium size onion  2 pieces garlic  1 medium size carrots(cubes)  1 large size potatoes (cubes)  120ml papa banana ketchup ...

Chicken Tinola

Chicken Tinola is also one of the most favorite Filipino meal of all time. People love this meal because of it's chicken broth that is gingery in taste. This meal can be cook using different vegetables as ingredients. Vegetables that can be use for this recipe are malungay, pechay,papaya, sayote and chilli leaves. It is best to combine malunggay leaves and papaya, malunggay and sayote, sayote and  chilli leaves, papaya and  chilli leaves or even pechay alone. The taste depends on what vegetables you add to it, but what important is the original Tinola taste of the broth. See below the ingredients you will need and the instructions on how to make this chicken tinola. Ingredients: 1/2 medium size onion 2 pcs garlic 3 grams ginger 4 pieces chicken 840ml water 1knorr chicken cubes 2 tbsp fish sauce chilli leaves salt to taste Preparation time: 5 mins Cooking time: 30-35 minutes Total serving: 4 servings Cooking instructions: Saute garlic, ginger then onion. Add chicken and cook ...

Paskiw na Tilapia with Fried Tilapia

Recipe: Paksiw na Tilapia with Fried Tilapia Total cooking time: 20 minutes Total serving: 2-4 servings Tilapia is the famous fish use for Filipino meals. It's is best for "paksiw"  and bangus is best for "sinigang". Many people are confused with how they are cooked. The difference in how to cook paksiw and sinigang is that paksiw is cook in a slower process, it is  cook in low to medium fire without much water added to it, while sinigang is cook with more water and without oil added to it. And traditionally it is cook using clay pots with banana leaves and using bagoong as the fish sauce. Ingredients: Paksiw: 2 tbsp oil 3 tbsp fish sauce 3 tbsp vinegar 1/2 medium-size onion 2 cloves garlic 3grams ginger 2 pcs medium tomatoes 2 pieces of small size fish 6 pcs green peppers  Kangkong stalks 1/4 tsp ground black pepper 1/8 tsp salt  1/2 tbsp  sampaloc mix with gabi Procedure: Add 2 tbsp oil into a deep pan.  Add 3 tbsp vinegar,  add 3 tbsp fi...

Chicken Adobo

     Chicken Adobo is the most famous Filipino meal known by other people around the world. It's one of the traditional foods Filipino people serve during get together parties, and the most favorite food of every Filipino especially if they want to eat more rice. It is also a typical meal that Filipino people cook for their lunch and dinner. This is also good as "baon" or the most known food to be kept in a lunch  box to bring during Christmas parties or and even when you go hiking because adobo can last for how many days and still taste the  same.This kind of meal can be cook salty by adding more soysauce and salt, it is usually hot and salty in taste. If you like to add a little sweetness to it,  you can add pineapples chunks or bits which makes this meal liked by more kids. Ingredients: 6 pcs of boiled chickens 2 medium size potatoes 1 pack of pineapple tidbits 1/3 tbsp ground black pepper 50 ml soysauce 360ml water Pinch of salt Preparation time: 10minu...

Chicken Arroz Caldo

  Chicken arroz caldo also called "kaning lugaw" in Tagalog or "rice porridge" in English.  It is a budget friendly meal where it is one of the basic meals served during the feeding programs for the poor and homeless people. It is also serve in evacuation centers at times of calamities and a perfect meal to serve for sick people. This is also serve when the  weather is cold especially during Ber months, this is good for people living in places with winter season. This recipe is also slightly the same as gotto but the difference is it's added with more rice and chicken and also it's not yellow in color. All  people can cook it because it's very  easy. When cooking rice  porridge glutinous  rice  is always best to use as the main ingredient  but in this recipe  we will use cooked cold rice or "kaning lamig" in tagalog, this is to minimize leftovers and avoid wasting our foods. Ingredients: 2 cloves of garlic 1 medium size onion 3 grams gin...

Escabeche- Plain

   Escabeche is  an  adopted meal  from the Spanish culture because  Philippines was influenced by the Spaniards for 333 years long before the Philippines became independent from the Spanish colony. Escabeche is  a meal that is common in Spain and Portugal,  it   is a meal where fish is marinaded using vinegar and spices and is being fried. Escabeche in the Philippines is a type of meal that you can cook simply by combining fish with tomatoes and extra sauce with carrots or even bell peppers.  It's budget friendly and  also good for people who don't have much appetite to eat. Perfect  light meal for lunch or even for dinner. It is best to combine with rice.See below the ingredients you need and the cooking instructions on how to make this plain escabeche recipe. Ingredients: 4 pieces galunggong fish 50 ml soysauce(for marinade process) 1/2tbsp salt(for marinade process) Cornstarch as breading 2 pieces kalamansi to be ex...