Ingredients:
- 4 chicken thighs or drumsticks
- 2 cups of sticky rice (uncooked)
- 1 qt of chicken stock (fat free, sodium free)
- 2 knobs of ginger (peeled, chopped 1/4 inches)
- 4 cloves of garlic (chopped roughly)
- 1 onion or 2 shallots
- green onions
- 2 tablespoons patis or fish sauce
- salt and pepper
Instructions:
- Get a big pot hot and add some olive oil, and brown the chicken. Salt and pepper.
- When you flip over the chicken, add the chopped onion or shallots and let it sautee until the other side of the chicken browns.
- Add garlic, give a quick toss and add uncooked rice.
- Mix around the rice and add the patis or fish sauce. Add ginger. Mix around and add chicken stock.
- Cover and bring to simmer.
- When simmer, bring heat to medium and continue to stir. Making sure rice doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pot.
- Continue to check the tenderness of the rice. If mixture is getting too thick, loosen with lukewarm water.
- When rice is cooked just right, serve with chicken in a bowl and garnish with green onions and/or deep fried shallots and garlic and a grind of black or white pepper.
Ingredients:
- Chicken, 2 lbs
- 1 green papaya; cut in cubes
- 2 tablespoons ginger, crushed and sliced into strips
- 3-4 cups water
- 1/2 cup dahon ng sili (chili leaves) or mallunggay leaves
- 5 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 red onion, sliced
- 4 tablespoons oil
- 2 tablespoons patis (fish sauce)
Instructions:
- In a stock pot, heat oil and sauté garlic, onion and ginger.
- Add water and the chicken.
- Bring to a boil and simmer for about 20 minutes or until chicken is almost done.
- Season with patis
- Add papaya and continue to simmer for an additional 5 minutes or until papaya softens but not overcooked.
- Add sili leaves then turn off the heat.
- Serve steaming hot on a bowl with plain rice on the side.
Ingredients:
- 1.10 lb sirloin steak sliced thin
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- garlic minced
- 2 medium sized potatoes cut into wedges
- 3 medium size onions cut into rings
- pepper to taste
Steps:
- Mix lime juice, soy sauce, sugar, pepper and half of the minced garlic to make the marinade.
- Pour the marinade over the beef. Let sit for about 30 minutes.
- Heat some oil in the pan and fry the potatoes till golden brown.
- Set aside.
- In the same pan saute the remaining garlic. add in the marinated beef and stir fry till brown.
- Pour a little bit of the marinade diluted in some water and simmer to make sauce. When beef is tender add in the potatoes and onion rings.
- Mix and let the heat wilt the onions a bit.
- Served best together with a cup of rice.
