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.

HOW TO COOK CHICKEN ASADO (ASADONG MANOK)

How To Cook Chicken Asado (Asadong Manok) –We are going to cook another Filipino traditional dish called Asadong Manok in very Filipino way. This dish is barely different from the Asado dishes I have shared with you on my recent posts. Not all of us are huge fans of beef nor pork so I made this recipe for those who like the chicken above beef and pork. Some of us know how to cook Chicken Asado or Asadong manok and they know cooking this dish is not that tricky at all.

I have received emails from my readers and they asked me if the sugar in my previous post is too sweet for a kilo of meat. But others told me also that I should add a little more sugar. That’s what I was talking about. If you feel like the sugar is too sweet for a kilo of meat then reduce the amount to suit your taste. And by the way, you can use the white sugar if you don’t have any brown sugar at home. Alright folks, this is how to cook Chicken Asado (Asadong Manok).

HOW TO COOK CHICKEN ASADO (ASADONG MANOK)

Ingredients

1 kilo of boneless chicken (Philippine native manok would be the best)

4 potatoes (quartered)

3 medium size onions (chopped)

1 head of garlic (minced)

1 teaspoon of freshly ground pepper

4 bay leaves (Laurel)

3 cups of vinegar

¼ cup of oil

2 tablespoon of salt

2 tablespoon of low sodium salt

2 red bell peppers (diced)

¼ cup of annatto water

3 tablespoon of tomato sauce (optional)

½ cup of brown sugar

2 ½ cups of water

Cooking Procedure

1. In a pot, put the chicken, vinegar, Pepper, one teaspoon of minced ginger, salt, bay leaves and soy sauce.
2. Bring to a boil and simmer until the chicken is cooked.
3. In a pan, pour some oil and fry the potatoes. Set aside.
4. In the same pan, saute garlic and onion. Add tomato sauce.
5. Add sugar and ½ cup of water.
6. Slice the chicken according to your preference.
7. In the pan, add the chicken, bell pepper, annatto water and bring to a boil. Simmer for 5 minutes.
8. Remove from heat and serve.

HOW TO COOK PANCIT LUG-LUG (PANSIT LUGLUG)

How To Cook Pancit Lug-Lug (Pansit Luglug) –This one is almost the same as the palabok. Their only difference is that the Lug-Lug has thicker bihon noodles. But in the Philippines, they don’t have the same popularity because many of us know palabok better than the Pancit Lug-Lug. This time we are going to cook the Pansit Luglug. You already know how to cook Pancit Lug-Lug if you have ever cooked the palabok. But like I always say, you can replace some ingredients to suit your taste. If you don’t like tinapa then find something to replace it.

Pancit or Pansit Luglug is well known in the Philippines and some other parts of the world because of the delicious combinations of the ingredients and the presentation of the chefs when serving this dish. In the restaurants where you can eat this thing, there is always one thing the chef can barely forget, this is the calamansi. Calamansi has a magical touch to make your Pansit more delicious that is why calamnsi has always been an important ingredient in cooking Pancit. Here is how to cook Pancit Lug-Lug (Pansit Luglug).

HOW TO COOK PANCIT LUG-LUG (PANSIT LUGLUG)

Ingredients

¼ kg pork

5 tbsp cooking oil

¼ cup garlic (crushed)

½ cup boneless tinapa flakes (smoked fish)

60g chicken gravy powder

2 cups pork broth

4L water

230g Bihon (corn sticks)

2 pieces of hard boiled eggs (thinly sliced)

2 tbsp garlic, fried to golden brown

½ cup shrimp (boiled and shelled)

¼ cup spring onions (chopped)

½ cup chicharon (crushed)

Patis (fish sauce) to taste

4 pcs calamansi (halved)

Cooking Procedure

1. Boil prok until tender. Cut into diced and set aside.
2. Heat oil in a wok, saute garlic, pork, tinapa.
3. Dissolve gravy powder into 2 cups of broth soup, add into the wok.
4. Simmer until suace is thick, remove from heat and set aside.
5. Bring 2 liters of water to a boil, add 2 tablespoon of cooking oil. Add the bihon noodles. Leave for one minute until noodle is cooked.
6. Remove Bihon from the boiling water and wash with cold water.
7. Arrange bihon noodles in a round platter.
8. Drizzle fish sauce over and garnish with boiled eggs.
9. Scatter with fried garlic, boiled shrimp, spring onions, chicharon, remaining tinapa flakes and calamansi.
10. Serve.

HOW TO COOK BEEF ASADO (ASADONG BAKA)

How To Cook Beef Asado (Asadong Baka) –This is one of the common dishes you find whenever you eat in a restaurant in the Philippines. I have shared with you my asadong baboy before and this time, we are going to use the beef instead of pork. Not all of us like pork so I thoguht it is better if I share with you this dish using another meat. This is how to cook Beef Asado in simple way and you are free to add some twist to it. You can add the ingredients or replace some with something you think would suit your taste. To those who have read my Asadong baboy post, you don’t need to learn this thing anymore, all you have to do is to replace the pork with beef and you’re good.

If you feel like using another meat, well, you can use this recipe as guide. You can use the lamb or the chicken breast. It is up to you because you are not cooking to please me so please enjoy my recipe and don’t forget to experiment. This is how to cook Beef Asado (Asadong Baka).

HOW TO COOK BEEF ASADO (ASADONG BAKA)

Ingredients

1 kilo of Beef tenderloin

4 potatoes (quartered)

3 medium size onions (chopped)

1 head of garlic (minced)

1 teaspoon of freshly ground pepper

4 bay leaves (Laurel)

3 cups of vinegar

¼ cup of oil

2 tablespoon of salt

2 tablespoon of low sodium salt

2 red bell peppers (diced)

¼ cup of annatto water

3 tablespoon of tomato sauce (optional)

½ cup of brown sugar

2 ½ cups of water

Cooking Procedure

1. In a pot, put the beef, vinegar, Pepper, one teaspoon of minced ginger, salt, bay leaves and soy sauce.
2. Bring to a boil and simmer until the beef is cooked.
3. In a pan, pour some oil and fry the potatoes. Set aside.
4. In the same pan, saute garlic and onion. Add tomato sauce.
5. Add sugar and ½ cup of water.
6. Slice the beef according to your preference.
7. In the pan, add the beef, bell pepper, annatto water and bring to a boil. Simmer for 5 minutes.
8. Remove from heat and serve.