Callos con Garbanzos
1 kilo goto
1 calf’s pata
1 tablespoons olive oil
1 small head garlic
1 big onion
2 chorizos de Bilbao
2 small can tomato puree
1 small can pimientos morrones
1/2 cup green olives
2 cups cooked garbanzos
salt and pepper to taste
Procedure:
Clean goto very well. Place pata and goto in a deep saucepan and add just enough water to cover. Bring to a boil and let simmer well covered, until very tender . Remove bones from pata and cut into 1 inch x 1/2 inch pieces. Cut goto into 1 inch x 1/2 inch pieces. Remove fat or “cebo” from liquid. Simmer down liquid to only 2 cups. Chop the garlic fine, peel and slice onions. Slice chorizo de Bilbao crosswise. Fry garlic in olive oil until golden brown. Remove from oil and fry onions. Add tomato puree and 1 cup of the liquid in which pata and goto have been cooked. Add imientos, fried garlic, goto and pata, olives and garbanzos. Add the rest of the liquid and salt and pepper to taste. Simmer 5 minutes. Serve hot.
Bibingka Malagkit
2 cups malagkit
1-1/2 cups brown sugar
3/4 cup rich coconut milk
3-1/2 cups diluted coconut milk from 2 coconuts
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. powdered anis
Procedure:
Boil the diluted coconut milk in carajay. Add malagkit and salt. Boil until quite dry, stirring constantly to keep from burning. Lower the heat and add 2/3 cup sugar. Line a pan (bibingkahan) with wilted banana leaf. Pour the mixture into it. Pour the rich coconut milk and the rest of the sugar
on top of malagkit. Sprinkle with the anis seeds. Fill the cover of the pan with live coals and place over mixture until it browns. Or bake in an rdinary oven at moderate temperature and finish off by putting under the broiler to brown topping.
Cardillo
1 pound fish
2 tablespoons lard
1/2 cup water
salt to taste
1 vlove garlic, crushed
1/4 cup sliced onion
1/2 cup sliced tomatoes
2 eggs
Procedure:
Clean the fish, cut into serving pieces, salt to taste and fry in lard until golden brown. Remove from pan and fry the garlic in the remaining lard. When golden brown add the onion and tomatotoes and salt to taste. When tomato is cooked add the water and simmer from 3-5 minutes. Drop the fried fish into the mixture, remove from heat and add well beaten eggs. Serve hot.
Cabbage Guisado
1 small cabbage, sliced fine
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1/2 cup sliced onion
1/2 cup sliced tomatoes
1/2 cup pork, sliced
1/2 cup shelled shrimps
1 cup shrimp juice
2 tsbps. shortening
salt to taste
Procedure:
Wash cabbage well and drain. Saute in shortening the garlic, onion, pork, and tomatoes. Add shrimps juice. Stir until it boils. Add the sliced cabbage and season to taste. Cook until cabbage is crisp-tender.
Banana Blossom Kilawin
2 banana blossoms
1 cup shelled shrimps
4 cloves chopped garlic
1 onion (cut in slices)
4 tablespoon lard
2 cups shrimp juice
vinegar, salt and pepper to taste
Procedure:
Remove the toughm covering of the blossom. Slice thin (crosswise). Squeeze it with salt and then rinse. set aside. Mix the shrimps, sliced onion, and vnegar. Saute the garlic and add the shrimp mixture. Add shrimp juice and continue cooking. Then add blossom. Turn over constantly until tender. Season with salt and pepper. Serve hot.
Chicken Sinigang
1 (about 1-1/2 lb.) chicken fryer
1 cup 2-inch pieces sitao
1 cup quartered small radishes
1/2 cup sliced tomatoes
2 cups camote tops
1/4 cup sliced onion
2 cups tamarind tops (young leaves) and flowers
1 tablespoon coarse salt
patis to taste
Procedure:
Put chicken, cut to serving pieces, sprinkle with salt and set aside. Wrap tamarind leaves and flowers in young banana leaf or a piece of clean gauze or sinamay and boil in water to cover with the chicken pieces, tomatoes and onion until chicken is almost tender. Remove tamarind from mixture, mash and express juice and add to chicken. Discard leaves and flowers. Add the rest of the ingredients and continue cooking until chicken is ender and vegetables are just crisp-tender.Correct seasoning by adding patis to taste. Serve hot.
Breaded Steak
6 slices of tenderloin steak
slt and pepper to taste
2 teaspoons calamansi juice
1/2 cup bread crumbs
1 egg, beaten
cooking oil
Procedure:
Pound the steaks thin. Season with salt and pepper and calamansi juice, about 20 minutes before cooking. Roll in bread crumbs, dip in egg just to moisten and roll in crumbs again. Pan fry in oil over moderate heat. Serve hot.
Caldereta
1 kilo goat’s meat cut into pieces
1 cup fat or salad oil
5 segments garlic, crushed
6 potatoes, halved or quartered
1 large onion
slices of hard-cooked eggs
meat stock or water
6 tomates sliced
paprika, salt and pepper to taste
liver mixture
1 cup sweet peas
1/2 cup chopped ham
Procedure:
Heat the fat, and brown the garlic. Remove the garlic and saute the onion and tomatoes, then add the meat and seasonings. When party cooked, transfer the mixture into a deeper pan, then add stock to cover the mixture. Cook until meat is almost tender. Add the potatoes and continue cooking. When meat and vegetables are tender, add the liver mixture to chicken the gravy. And pimientos, peas and ham. Serve hot and garnish to with slices hard=cooked eggs and chopped ham.
Brain Omelet
2 pork brains (4 halves)
1/2 finely-minced onion, small.
s alt and pepper to taste
2 well beaten eggs
oil for frying
Procedure:
Clean brains, removing membrance. Steam brains in very little water until cooked. Season to taste. Cut into cubes and add onion. Add a little salt to beaten eggs. Heat enough oil in a frying pan, about 1 tablespoon and pour the eggs. Place cooked brain on eggs when eggs begin to set. Turn eggs over to completely cover brains. Serve hot.
Calamares Rellemados
Remove heads, tentacles and ink bags of several medium-sized squids or calamares. Clean each
thoroughly and season the cavity with a little salt.
Stuff the cavities with the following:
1/2 cup boiled shrimps, chopped fine
1/2 cup chicken and pork meat, chopped fine
1 small onion, minced
1/2 cup soft crumbs soaked in milk
1 or 2 eggs
salt and pepper to taste
Procedure:
Mix ingredients in the order given and stuff squids cavities well up to neck. Replace heads and sew in place. Place squids in a shallow pan, over with mixture of 2 cups water, 2 tablespoons shortening, chopped garlic, chopped onions and chopped tomatoes. Salt to taste. Simmer gently until calamares are cooked and liquuid reduced to alomost half. Remove stuffed squids and serve with sauce strained over them.