Mely's Kitchen Sticky Rice with Mango

A simple glutinous rice recipe that is good for all occasions. These two main ingredients ( glutinous rice and mango) goes well together.

Ingredients:
2 cups glutinous rice
1/2 cup white sugar( or according to your taste)
2 cups coconut milk
2 mangoes ( slice into batonettes)

Procedure:
1. In a pot combine the glutinous rice, sugar and coconut milk then cover and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally.
2. When the coconut milk is almost dry, reduce the heat to low then cover and simmer until fully cooked, then allow to cool.
3. After cooling, scoop some rice  then put over a foil and flatten it evenly, then put some mango slices, roll like a sushi.

4. Cut into desired size then sprinkle with crushed cashew nuts or sesame seeds then serve, or you can put some coconut cream before serving.

Note: In cutting this, wet the knife with water so that the rice won' stick and easier to cut.

Mely's Kitchen Lasagna

 

It was fun when I made this lasagna. forgive me that I have not posted yet on how to make the long lasagna sheet. It's a very good alternative from the lasagna that we can buy at the market where we need to boil it, this one is like an instant lasagna sheet, because we can use it right after making it. Yes, no need to boil it, sounds great? I will be posting soon on how to make it, but for now I want to share this version from my kitchen.

Ingredients:

Long lasagna sheet ( I will be posting soon on how to make this, sorry)

1/2 kilo ground beef

3 packs tomato sauce ( 250g each)
1/2 cup Nestle cream
1 tablespoon white sugar
1/4 kilo Mozarella cheese ( scraped)
1  onion
5 cloves garlic
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1.Saute garlic and onion, then add the ground beef,salt and pepper then simmer for few minutes until the pinkish color of the beef disappeared.
2. Add the tomato sauce and sugar, simmer for few minutes until the ground beef is fully cooked, then add the Nestle cream and simmer for a minute then turn off the heat.

3. Spread the lasagna sheet then spread the sauce evenly and add the cheese, then roll it.

4. Put the rolled lasagna in a baking pan, then pour the resst of the sauce to cover it and sprinkle with cheese, then baked in a pre-heated oven for 40 minutes or until done at 180C.

5. Once done, allow to cool for 15 minutes before serving.

Check other Lasagna Recipes:

Baked Lasagna

Rolled Lasagna

Sauteed Bottle Gourd

Bottle gourd or upo in Filipino language is a kind of vegetable that is watery and light in taste, but cooking it with a right combination of other ingredients, we can make a delicious dish from it, like this recipe it's simply sauteed with pork and added with annatto ( atsuete) to enhance the color and aroma, presto! a delicious dish that you can not resist.

Ingredients:
1 whole bottle gourd
1/2 kilo pork
4 cloves garlic
1 piece onion
1/2 cup soy sauce
1 teaspoon annatto powder or 1/2 cup annatto extract ( atsuete)
salt and pepper to taste

Bottle gourd

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic and onion then add the pork and continue to saute until half cooked. Then add the soy sauce, atsuete, salt and pepper to taste then simmer for 2 minutes.

2. Add the bottle gourd and simmer until tender then turn off the heat.

3. Serve it hot and do not forget to smile :-).

Sauteed Shrimp Paste

Shrimp paste is a fermented krill or baby shrimps. There are lots of Filipino dishes that calls for shrimp paste or bagoong alamang, but I love the pure sauteed shrimp paste, it's really a good appetizer, and putting a little Sprite in it makes me crave for more, try it.

Ingredients:
1 cup shrimp paste ( Bagoong alamang)
1/4 kilo pork's fat
6 cloves garlic
1/2 cup Sprite
some chili ( optional)

Procedure:
1. Put the fat in a pan the cook it until the oil comes out, then continue to cook it until brownish.
2. Add the garlic then saute until golden brown, add the shrimp paste and chili, then mix well. Simmer until cooked.
3.Add the Sprite then simmer for few minutes and turn off the heat. Let cool.
4. Keep in an air tight jar and use it anytime you want.