Filipino Recipes
- Philippine cooking is the familiar blended
with the exotic. Just as the Filipinos are part Malay, Chinese
and Spanish, so is the cuisine of the seven-thousand-island
Philippine nation. One can also taste the subtle hints of
Indian, Mexican, Arab and American influences. American
contribution to Filipino kitchen particularly became heavy following
WW II when surplus canned foods became widely available because of
the shortages of fresh produce. The Filipinos embraced these
'new foods' and turned them into dishes that taste nothing like
canned food. For example, by sautéing canned corned beef with
onions and garlic, they created a dish uniquely their own.
- Adobo is considered
the national dish of the Philippines. This dish consists of
chunks of chicken or pork or both cooked in soy sauce, vinegar, bay
leaf, lots of garlic and whole peppercorns. The stew is
allowed to cook until the meats are tender and the remaining sauce
slightly thickened. Some people prefer their adobos dry which
may entail frying them afterwards, while others prefer them moist
served in their original sauce. As a style of cooking, it can
be applied to fowl, fish, shellfish and vegetables.
- Cooking and Filipino cuisine is the
Filipinos' favorite topic other than politics. Filipinos for a
fact are fond of eating. Whether in expensive restaurants or
at Mom's kitchen, they eat with gusto. Do they live to eat or
eat to live? - I guess both, what is life without those cholesterol
loaded and high fat gastronomical Filipino cooking. Filipino
men also love to cook and exchanging recipes among them is common.
Here are but a few of the Filipino's Recipes but
they are the ones I like best...
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