HOW TO COOK SIMPLE BANGERS AND MASH

How To Cook Simple Bangers And Mash –Here is another English dish, it is called Bangers and Mash which is actually a combination of sausages and mashed potatoes. Its name is a funny name for a serious food. Commonly used is the Cumberland sausage because many find it best for this dish. Bangers and Mash is sometimes served with onion gravy, or fried onions, peas and beans.

This dish is commonly served in many fast food chains all over the country and that is why Bangers and Mash is called British Working-class dish. Back in college, I had a British friend who I used to hang out with. He taught me how to cook Banger and Mash in his flat. I was amazed that this dish could be that simple and easy to cook. Although there are many types of this dish, I still managed to make my very own version of this dish and I made it simple because not most of us would like to spend little bit more than what we ought to spend for food. In this recipe, I did not use the Cumberland sausage but you can use your ordinary sausage. Try to replace other ingredients if you fell like not using that particular ingredient but make sure you would not ruin the taste. Here is how to cook simple Bangers and Mash:

HOW TO COOK SIMPLE BANGERS AND MASH

Ingredients

• 4 pork sausages
• 4 tablespoons of olive oil
• 2 large size onions (thinly sliced)
• 1 ½  cup of chicken broth
• 4 tablespoon of red wine (any fruit wine will do)
• 1 tablespoon of all-purpose flour
• 4 large potatoes (chopped)
• 1 ½ cup of evaporated milk
• ½ cup of butter
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Additional ½ cup of butter

Cooking Procedure

1. In a pan, put 2 tablespoon of oil and 2 tablespoon of butter.
2. Cook and stir until caramelized. Set aside.
3. In a pot, pour in water. Add the potatoes and simmer until cooked.
4. In a pot, pour in water. Add the sausage and simmer until cooked.
5. In the same pan, add the onions and stir until caramelized.
6. Add the flour and stir until the flour is scattered all over.
7. Add the red wine and stir.
8. Add the chicken broth and simmer for 15 minutes or until the liquid evaporated.
9. Add salt and pepper.
10. Mash the potatoes with colander or anything can mash them.
11. Add the milk and the additional butter and mash the potatoes with them thoroughly.
12.  Season with little salt and pepper.
13.  In another skillet, pour in the rest of the oil and butter. Stir until molten. Add the sausages, cook and stir until caramelized.
14. Put the potatoes on a plate, add the caramelized sausage. Pour the onion gravy over the sausage and serve.

HOW TO COOK CHAMPORADO

   How To Cook Champorado –It is a kind of porridge cooked with chocolate flavorings. Commonly used used ingredient is the glutinous rice which we call malagkit in Tagalog. This sweet rice dish is one of the best snacks of the Filipinos and also it serves as breakfast. If you are going to think about the flvorings, you might say Champorado is expensive but no, because instead of using chocolates, cocoa is used and there are several types of it like the blocks and the powder.

   In some cases, you won’t find cocoa in the shops or grocy stores, you could use the chocolate drinks for the kids but remember that you need to adjust the amount of the sugar you would use because those chocolate drinks are already sweet. This recipe I am going to share with you is just the simple and easy one. You may add more cream or something to add a little creamy taste. Here is how to cook Champorado:

HOW TO COOK CHAMPORADO

INGREDIENTS

½ cup of cocoa powder

1 cup of glutinous rice (malagkit na bigas)

½ cup of brown sugar

½ cup of heavy cream or condensed milk

2 ½ cups of water

1 cup of warm water

COOKING PROCEDURE

1. In a pot, boil the water.
2. Add the glutinous rice. Simmer. Stir occasionally to make it thick.
3. In a cup of warm water, dilute the cocoa powder.
4. Add the diluted cocoa in the pot. Stir thoroughly.
5. Add the sugar. Simmer and keep on stirring until the texture becomes thick.
6. Pour in a serving bowl.
7. Pour milk over it and serve while hot.