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This is a great crab recipe. Maybe you’d love it after you’ve tried it…

Ingredients

1 pc large fresh crab
1/4 tsp white pepper
2 tbsps cornstarch
1 pc egg white
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 tsp sugar
1/2 cup chicken stock
1 pc green pepper
1/2 knob fresh ginger, sliced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tbsp salted black beans
1 tbsp chinese wine
1 tbsp soy sauce

Procedure

1. Steam crab over rapidly boiling water for 15 minutes, then remove the top shell and separate the claws from the body.
2. Crush the claws and cut the body of the crab into serving size pieces, whisk egg white with half the cornstarch and pour over the crab.
3. Season with salt and pepper. Set aside 20 minutes.
4. Mash the black beans with 2 tbsps oil.
5. Heat the remaining oil in a work until very hot, deep fry the crab for 2 minutes.
6. Add the green pepper and onion and cook further. Add ginger, garlic and black beans.
7. Stir fry for a minute.
8. Add the soy sauce, sesame oil and sugar.
9. Mix the remaining cornstarch with 1 tbsp water and stir into a sauce to thicken.
10. Transfer to serving dish.

What can you say???

Chicken minus its skin is a healthy meat option. Most dishes served to the family include chicken. Cook up something new like this chicken cocido.

Ingredients
1 kg chicken thighs
4 slices sweet ham
1 pc chorizo bilbao, cut diagonally
1 medium cabbage, sliced into 4-6 wedges
2 medium sized potatoes, cut into quarters
6 saba bananas, sliced diagonally and fried
2 tbsps cooking oil
1 clove garlic, minced
1 chopped onion
1 750g spaghetti sauce
2 cans garbanzos
salt and pepper to taste {optional}

Procedure
In a large sauce pan, boil chicken and simmer until tender; add in ham and chorizos. Remove meat from sauce pan and use meat stock to boil potatoes and cabbage. In hot oil, saute garlic, onion and spaghetti sauce. Add meat and just enough broth to cover. Add garbanzos, fried bananas and other cooked vegetables. Simmer for 5 minutes or until vegetables are done. Add seasonings if desired. Arranged in a serving dish, with the meat on one side, the vegetables on the other.

Bicolano dishes are often cooked in cocomilk or gata. One of my favorites is the Ginataang Langka sa Alimango (Jackfruit with Crab in Cocomilk). Whenever my Mama would cook it, I like the last serving from the pot or casserole.

Ingredients:

1 cup young langka (unripe jackfruit)
1 pc. female alimango (crab)
1/2 tsp. yellow ginger, cut into strips
2 tbsps onion, sliced
1 tsp garlic, minced
3/4 cup coconut milk
2 tsps yellow ginger
1 pc. finger chili
2 tbsps fish sauce
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper

Procedure:

1. Put the garlic, onions and yellow ginger in the pot/pan. Add the coconut milk.
2. Bring it a boil. Do not stop stirring until it boils. This is to make sure that the cocomilk does not curdle.
3. Add the alimango and langka.
4. Add fish sauce. Simmer for a few minutes.
5. Season with salt and pepper. Add the finger chili and continue to simmer until it is cooked.

Note: To make sure that your “ginataan” dish is really creamy, always set aside the kakang gata and pour it to the dish before it’ is cooked. Be sure to bring it to a boil before putting off the fire.

Tired of the usual fried milk fish you serve? Make it an excitingly delicious meal with this Bangus Tic-Tac-Toe recipe.

Ingredients:
Bangus belly , cut in one inch squares
Cornstarch with salt and pepper
Pesto Sauce
Olives, cut in thin circles
Sun dried tomatoes, cut in strips

Procedure:

1. Dredge the bangus belly squares in cornstarch seasoned with salt and pepper. Fry till golden brown.
2.Top the drained bangus belly squares with pesto sauce and olives or pesto sauce and sun dried tomatoes.
3. Arrange it in Tic-Tac-Toe form for presentation.

With all the news about colon cancers, we think of switching to vegetarian diets. Maybe we can try this dinengdeng recipe. This is an Ilocano recipe as vegetables abound in the backyards of the Ilocanos.

Ingredients
1 cup water
1 pc grilled fish, sliced
2 tbsps bagoong Balayan, strained
2 tbsps shallots
1 tbsp ginger
1 tbsp tomato
1 cup string beans, cut into 1″ pcs
1 cup ampalaya, sliced
1 cup eggplant, sliced
salt and pepper

Procedure
1. Boil water with fish to absorb flavor.
2. Remove the fish and set aside.
3. Pour in bagoong Balayan. Let it boil.
4. Add ahallots and ginger.
5. Add the string beans then the eggplant and, lastly, the ampalaya.
6. Simmer for a few minutes and add the tomato. Let it boil again.
7. Lastly, add the grilled fish on top and simmer to cook.
8. Add salt and pepper to taste.