HOW TO MAKE CHICKEN TOCINO (TOCINONG MANOK)

How To Make Chicken Tocino (Tocinong Manok) –This dish is very popular to the kids because it is sweet and we know that the childrens love sweet dishes. It was one of my favorite dishes when I was in grade school. This dish is not common to others because they usually eat the processed Pork Tocino bought from meat shops and not many of us know how to make Chicken Tocino. This tutorial I am about to share with you is just the simple and easy way because there are numerous ways how to make this dish. And I am sure you would agree if I say that we don’t like much the use of so many preservatives and chemicals on making food because we know these preservatives are cancerous. In this recipe I am going to share with you, we are going to use a little bit of chemicals but these chemicals in their amounts are okay and harmless. This is how to make Chicken Tocino (Tocinong Manok) in very easy way:

HOW TO MAKE CHICKEN TOCINO (TOCINONG MANOK)

Ingredients

5 lbs of boneless Chicken

2 tsp of phospate

3 tsp curing salt

1 ½ cup of sugar

1 head of garlic (crushed)

3 tbsp Vodka or Gin

½ cup of water

1 ascorbic acid tablet or the vitamine C tablet (crushed)

Procedure

1. Thinly slice the Chicken and put in the fridge.
2. In a glass bowl, add all the remaining ingredients, mix well.
3. Add the sliced Chicken and soak up for one day.
4. Put in a packing bag and put in a freezer for 2 days.
5. Chicken Tocino is now good for frying.

HOW TO COOK CAMOTE CUE (SWEET POTATO CUE)

How To Cook Camote Cue (Sweet Potato Cue) –Here is another cheap but delicious snack food of the Filipinos. This food is called Camote cue. It is made out of sweet potatoes, with scattered sugar all around it and fried. This food is similar to the French fries but their difference is that Camote Cue is flavored with caramelized sugar. This food is very Filipino and if you are in the Philippines, it is easy to find because many street vendors, food carts and small food shops sell this food. It is cooked exactly the way the banana cue is cooked. So if you know the cooking procedure of banana cue, then definitely you know how to cook Camote Cue. I have shared with you this kind of recipe a couple of days ago and this time we are going to cook this delicious Filipino snack. Cooking this food is very simple and I am sure you would know how to cook Camote Cue (Sweet Potato Cue) just by reading this recipe I am about to share with you. So we are going to use the very reason why this food is named such its name, the Skewer. Here are the ingredients and the cooking procedure:

HOW TO COOK CAMOTE CUE (SWEET POTATO CUE)

Ingredients

8 pieces of medium size Sweet Potatoes (camote)

300 ml of oil

½ cup of brown sugar

10 pieces BBQ sticks

Cooking Procedure

1. Peel the Camote and slice into ½ inch thick pieces.
2. Put the sugar on a plate.
3. Gently press the Camote against the sugar side by side.
4. In a pan, heat oil.
5. Drop the Camote by batch and fry until the Camote are cooked.
6. Get the Camote skewered on the BBQ sticks and serve.

HOW TO COOK GINISANG MONGGO (MUNGGO)

How To Cook Ginisang Monggo (Munggo) –I just visited a website saying that Munggo is a poor man’s viand. I don’t agree with her because I know people who belong to the middle class families that asked me for its recipe. This dish is cheap but poor man’s dish, no. And my relatives back in states, they would spend almost 50 bucks just to eat this very Filipino dish because they don’t know how to cook Ginisang Monggo. The Americans call it Mungbean soup because it has the similarity with corn soup or something. There are many procedures and ways how to cook Ginisang Munggo but this time, we are going to cook my mother’s recipe because for the she has the best Munggo recipe. In this recipe, we are going to use cracklings instead of pork. By using this recipe I am about to share with you, mind the vegetables that we are going to use because you may want to replace them with something you would think better. Here is my mother’s way how to cook Ginisang Monggo (Munggo).

HOW TO COOK GINISANG MONGGO (MUNGGO)

Ingredients

1 cup of munggo or mungbeans

2 cups of pork cracklings (chicharon baboy)

6 cloves of garlic (minced)

1 small size onion (thinly sliced)

4 tomatoes (sliced)

2 pieces of eggplant (sliced as desired)

1 cup of Malunggay leaves

3 tablespoon of oil

Shrimp paste to taste (Alamang)

Water

Cooking Procedure

1. In a pressure cooker, boil 800ml-1L of water and add Munggo.
2. Simmer until the Monggo is cooked.
3. In a pan, heat oil. Saute garlic and onions until golden brown.
4. Add the Alamang stir a little bit.
5. Add the tomatoes. Stir for 1 minute.
6. Add the Monggo and eggplant. Simmer until the eggplant is almost cooked.
7. Add the cracklings and stir.
8. Check the taste if you need to add a little more Alamang.
9. Add the Malunggay leaves. Simmer for 1 minute.
10. Remove from heat. And serve.

HOW TO COOK BANANA CUE (BANANA-Q)

How To Cook Banana Cue (Banana-Q) –This is a very famous and common snack food in the Philippines and it is very easy to find. Many food carts and small and medium food shops sell this thing. Even the walking street vendors or “mga naglalako” offer this food. Banana Cue or Banana-Q has simple ingredients, not only simple but very cheap ingredients that everyone can afford. And one thing I really like about this dish is that it is very convenient to eat because you don’t need a plate or utensils like spoon and fork to eat this thing because it is served in BBQ sticks. I am wondering if there is still someone who does not know how to cook Banana-Q. Cooking this snack is very easy and simple. You don’t need to be an expert chef to make this food.

Why would you go to the fancy food shops just to eat banana pie if you can call a street vendor to deliver a stick of Banana cue to your office? Makes sense right? If you want to save money then I would recommend you this snack. Let us do a little math here. How much would you save if you eat Banana Cue instead of fancy Banana pie? Say pie is 99cents-$1 (about 37php) and Banana Cue is 25cents (10php). Do you see the difference now? Okay let’s get back to cooking. This time I am going to share with you the ingredients and cooking procedure on how to cook Banana Cue (Banana-Q), here it is.

HOW TO COOK BANANA CUE (BANANA-Q)

Ingredients

10 pieces of ripe plantain bananas

300 ml of oil

½ cup of brown sugar

10 pieces BBQ sticks

Cooking Procedure

1. Remove the skin of the Bananas.
2. Put the sugar on a plate.
3. Roll the Bananas over the sugar and set aside.
4. In a pan, heat oil.
5. Drop the Bananas by batch and fry until the Bananas are cooked. Time depends on how much ripe the banana is.
6. Get the Bananas skewered on the BBQ sticks and serve.

HOW TO MAKE POLVORON (PULBURON)

How To Make Polvoron (Pulburon) –Another very tasty Filipino dessert is this Polvoron thing or the Pinoys call it Pulburon. Anyone can find this dessert in candies and pastries stores. Polvoron is made out of flour and milk powder and wrap with wax paper or something that could hold its texture. Pulburon is one of the favorited desserts in the Philippines becase it is cheap yet delicious. There are many kinds of ingredients and procedures on how to make Polvoron. This time, I am going to share with you the simple and easy recipe of it. It does not require much ingredients and it is not that tricky like others think about making it. If you have kids, then I am sure they gonna like it because this is one of my favorite desserts when I was a kid. But I would like to advice you to have your kids brush their teeth after eating Polvoron because it is sweet and it sticks to the teeth. I always had toothache because of this dessert so as the time passed by, I managed to forgot this dessert, lol! Okay folks, here is how to make Polvoron (Pulburon).

HOW TO MAKE POLVORON (PULBURON)

Ingredients

1 cup of all-purpose flour

¼ cup of sugar

¼ cup of milk powder

¼ cup of melted butter

Procedure

1. In a pan, toast the flour until light brown.
2. Combine sugar and milk powder.
3. In another pan, melt the butter.
4. Add the flour, combined sugar and milk powder.
5. Mix thoroughly.
6. Mold in a Polvoron molder and wrap with wax paper.
7. If you don not have a molder, just scoop mixture and put on a wax papper and roll. Twist the both end of the wrapper to hold the Polvoron.