Pinoy Prawn Curry

Pinoy Prawn Curry. The Pinoy version of a curry dish is not as intense as the real curry in terms of hotness or spiciness. The Pinoy curry uses only the pre-mixed yellow curry powder in comparison to the South Asian and the Middle Eastern curry based dishes where the curry spices are made from scratch. Our curry dishes has a slight curry taste, it is sweet and uses a lot of coconut milk. I have made some Pinoy curry dishes which are basically all...

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Slipper Lobster with Cheesy Mushroom Sauce

Slipper Lobster with Cheesy Mushroom Sauce. Today I would like to share a simple recipe of a lobster, well no, it is not the real lobster, and I used Slipper Lobster. Slipper lobster as the name suggest but it is not a lobster, it is a poor man’s lobster ironically it is being disguised as lobsters in most seafood restaurant. Although they look similar to a real lobster when the head is removed they lack the texture and taste of the real lobsters....

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Fried Pork Chop with Tomato Onion Chili Relish

Fried Pork Chop with Tomato Onion Chili Relish. Fried pork chop is one of the more popular Pinoy eatery or carinderia dish. A small piece of pork chop is usually dredged in flour with salt and pepper seasoning. It is usually served with banana ketchup dip. At home it is served with chopped tomatoes with fish sauce dip. There are several ways to cook a pork chop. Listed below are some of the pork chop dish that we have in the archive, just click...

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Oxtail Lugaw

Oxtail Lugaw. Lugaw is one of the more popular Pinoy street food. When I was younger I used to have a bowl of lugaw on the streets of Baclaran in Paranaque before I head home from school and from work when I was starting to work, I used to leave in Tambo. The street food lugaw that was served on street vendors was made up of boiled rice adulterated with, I suspect starch to make it creamy and nutty. For color the street vendors usually use dilaw,...

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Special Lamb Kalderata

Special Lamb Kalderata. This is one of my special version of kaldereta. Lamb is always available on most Australian supermarkets. Most Pinoy here usually cook lamb fried or grilled on the barbeque. But today I chose to cook lamb to kaldereta, Lamb Kalderata is as good as goat kaldereta if cooked right. I usually marinate the lamb or goat meat with vinegar to remove reduced the gamey aroma of the meat. However be careful with the use of vinegar...

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