Pork and Beef Recipe

Beef with Asparagus 




Ingredients:
3/4 cup beef sirloin, pounded with the back of a knife and cut into strips
3 tbsp Mama Sita's Oyster Sauce
1 tbsp garlic, crushed
1/4 tsp ginger, minced

2 cups asparagus, cut into 1/2" from bottom
2 1/2 tsp cornstarch, dissolved in:
1/4 cup water
2 tbsp cooking oil


Directions:
Marinate beef sirloin in Mama Sita's Oyster Sauce, 1 tsp garlic, and ginger. Blanch or steam asparagus. Set aside. In a wok, heat oil. Sauté garlic. Before garlic turns golden, add beef and stir fry until cooked. Add asparagus, stir fry to mix thoroughly. Add cornstarch and water. Simmer for 2-3 minutes or until cornstarch is cooked.

 

Bicol Express Recipe




Estimated preparation time: 30 minutes

Estimated cooking time: 30 minutes



Bicol Express Ingredients:


  • 1/4 kilo pork, thinly sliced
  • 1 cup Baguio beans
  • 3 cups long chili or jalapeno peppers
  • 1 onion, minced
  • 1 head of garlic, minced
  • 1 cup coconut milk
  • 1 cup coconut cream
  • 2 tablespoons of cooking oil
  • Salt to taste

Bicol Express Cooking Instructions:


  • In a bowl of water with salt, soak chili peppers for 30 minutes then rinse and strain.
  • In a cooking pan, heat cooking oil and brown sliced pork for a few minutes.
  • In another pan, sauté minced garlic and onion.
  • Add to the sauté the browned pork.
  • Then add the coconut milk, bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
  • Add the chili peppers, Baguio beans and cook until dish gets a little dry.
  • Add the coconut cream and simmer until the sauce thickens.
  • Salt to taste.

Pork Menudo Recipe

 

Estimated preparation & cooking time: 50 minutes

Menudo Ingredients:

  • 1/2 kilo pork (cut into small chunks)
  • 1/4 kilo pork liver (cut into small cubes)
  • 5 pieces chorizo Bilbao (also cut in small pieces)
  • 4 potatoes (peeled, cut in small cubes, fried)
  • 1 green and 1 red bell pepper (diced)
  • 1 cup chickpeas
  • 1/4 cup raisins
  • 1/2 teaspoon paprika
  • 1 cup pork or chicken stock
  • 2 teaspoons of patis (fish sauce)
  • 3 tablespoons oil
  • 1 tablespoon atsuete oil (optional)
  • 3 tomatoes (diced)
  • 1 small head of garlic (minced)
  • 1 medium size onion (diced)

Menudo Cooking Instructions:

  • In a pan or wok, heat cooking oil and atsuete oil.
  • Saute garlic, onion. Then add the pork, liver, chorizo de Bilabo, tomatoes, bell pepper, paprika, patis and the stock.
  • Cover and bring to a boil. Simmer for 20 minutes or until the pork is tender.
  • Add the chickpeas, potatoes and raisins. Boil of another 2 minutes.
  • Salt and pepper to taste.
  • Serve hot with white rice.

    Sinigang Recipe


    Estimated cooking and preparation time: 1 hour

    Pork Sinigang Ingredients:

  • 3/4 kilo Pork, cut into chunks
  • 3 tomatoes, sliced
  • 2 onions, diced
  • 5 cloves of garlic, minced
  • 100 grams Kangkong (river spinach)
  • 100 grams String beans
  • 2 pieces horse radishes, sliced
  • 3 pieces gabi (taro), pealed
  • 2 pieces sili pag sigang (green finger pepper)
  • 200 grams sampalok (tamarind)
  • 3 tablespoons of patis (fish sauce)
  • 1 liter of rice wash or water