Rice With Broccoli

The nutty flavor of the broccoli ant the aroma of the garlic and spring onion made this simple rice recipe so awesome. Try it.

Ingredients for 3 servings:
3 cups cooked rice
1 head broccoli ( cooked and separated)
2 tablespoons butter
4 cloves garlic (minced and toasted)
1/2 cup chopped spring onion
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Heat the butter then stir in the broccoli for a minute then remove and set aside.
2. After removing the broccoli, add the rice and stir for 3 minutes, sprinkle with salt and pepper according to your taste.
3. Add the broccoli and give a good stir, sprinkle the toasted garlic and spring onion then turn off the heat.
4. Serve and enjoy.

Chorizo Fried Rice

I cooked this from my leftover rice and chorizo.

Ingredients:
2 cups cooked rice
4 cloves garlic
1/2 cup chopped cooked chorizo
1/2 cup corn kernel
1/4 cup spring onion
1 teaspoon soy sauce
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic then add the rice and stir well for a minute, sprinkle the soy sauce, salt and pepper then stir until fully mixed.
2. Add the chorizo and corn then stir again and continue cooking until done.
3. Sprinkle with spring onion then serve with a big smile :-).

Tamales

Tamales is one of the popular dishes in Pampanga, it's my first time to taste this when I visited my Kapampangan friend, this recipe is from her but she do not want me to put her picture as a contributor, anyway this is really yummy. Try it.


Ingredients:
3 cups rice
5 cups coconut milk (thin & thick together)
1 tablespoon atchuete powder
3/4 cup white sugar
3 teaspoons powdered pepper
4 tablespoons peanut butter
salt to taste


Toppings:
1 cup flaked chicken meat (cooked)
2 hard boiled eggs (sliced)
1 cup cooked strips of pork

Procedure:
1. Toast rice until brown. Grind finely. Add salt and pepper. Set aside.
2. Add atsuete powder to coconut milk. Boil in medium heat stirring constantly. Add powdered rice and sugar, stir until well blended and thick, then separate 1/4 of the cooked mixture then mix in the peanut butter for the toppings.
3. Put 3 tablespoons of cooked mixture on two pieces of wilted banana leaves; top with 1 tablespoon peanut-butter mixture, 2 slices of hard-boiled egg, flaked chicken meat and strips of pork.
Wrap to form a square and tie with a string. In a deep pan, put water enough to cover tamales. When water boils, put in tamales. Cover and cook for an hour.
4. Serve and enjoy.

Fried Rice Delight

Simple and easy to prepare but satisfying.

Ingredients:
2 cups cooked rice 
2 slices sweet ham
3 cloves garlic
100 grams ground pork or beef
2 eggs ( fried and chopped)
salt and pepper to taste
spring onion to garnish

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic then add the ground meat and continue to saute until the pinkish color of the meat is gone.  Add the ham and stir for a minute then add the rice and stir well until almost done.
2. Add the egg, salt and pepper then give a good stir until done, when done sprinkle with green onion and serve.

Champorado with Gata

champorado with tinapa

One of my childhood food that I still crave every now and then. Yummy!

Ingredients: 
1/2 cup glutinous rice
1/2 cup ordinary rice
8 cups water
2 cups pure coconut milk
1/2 cup chocolate powder
sugar (according to your taste)


Procedure:
1. Mix the rice and wash it then put in a pot together with the water and bring to a boil. When it is boiling, stir occasionally so that it will not stick at the bottom of the pot. Add the chocolate powder then simmer over low heat until the rice is very tender.
2. When it's done add the coconut milk and stir until evenly mixed, then add sugar and simmer for few minutes and turn off the heat.
3. Serve it hot with tuyo or tinapa  and enjoy!

Simple Rice Salad

Easy to prepare yet yummy and satisfying. I ate this during my lunch, I just partnered it with pork crackling :D Excellent! Better and healthier than fried rice. Try it.

Ingredients for 2 servings:
1 1/2 cup cooked rice
1/4 piece avocado medium size ( diced)
1/2 piece apple Medium size ( diced)
1/2 cup Pineapple tidbits
1 medium size tomato
1 tablespoon diced yellow bell pepper
1 tablespoons diced red bell pepper
1 tablespoon lemon juice
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Combine all the ingredients and mix well.

2. Chill or serve right away  with spring onion. :-).

Pineapple Fried Rice

An appealing dish not only to the sight but also to the taste buds, really yummy.Well blended flavors from all the ingredients. Try this.

Ingredients for 3 servings:
2 1/2 cup cooked rice
1 1/4 cup pineapple tidbits ( flesh from the pineapple that we will use as a rice basket)
1/4 kilo shrimps ( de-shelled and cleaned)
1/4 cup green beans ( Sliced into small pieces)
3 slices sweet ham ( sliced into small pieces)
3 cloves garlic
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1.Saute the garlic then add the shrimps, pineapple, beans and ham then stir for a minute over medium heat.
2. Add the rice then stir well until all the ingredients are well combined, add salt and pepper to taste, then stir every now and then until done.

3. Serve it hot on a platter or you can use the empty pineapple rind.

How to Cook Pilau Rice

Simple and easy to prepare.
The taste is very nice and spicy, perfect for curries.
Cooked by my best friend, Vince.


Ingredients:
300 grams rice
8 cloves
8 green cardamom pods
1 cinnamon stick
4 star of anise
1 tablespoon butter
a little saffron
4 bay leaf ( laurel)
water

Procedure:
1. Heat the butter and saute the cinnamon stick, saffron, star of anise, cardamom, cloves and bay leaf for few minutes.

2. Add the rice then mix until covered with butter and spices.
3.  Add water that is enough to cook the rice ( like the normal way of cooking white rice)
4.  Cover and mix occasionally until it is cooked.
5. Serve hot with your favorite meat, seafood or vegetable dish.

Contributed by: Mr. Vince O'Malley

Fried Rice a la Valenciana

An all in one savory fried rice with a touch of arroz valenciana, a very tasty dish that you can serve for the whole family.

Ingredients for 4 servings:
3 1/2  cups cooked rice
200 grams  pork
200 grams chicken
1 carrot ( dice)
1 green bell pepper ( diced)
1 tablespoon atsuete powder ( annatto )
3 cloves garlic
1/2 piece  onion
1/4 cup water
salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic and onion then add the pork and chicken, stir well and simmer until the pinkish color is gone
2. Add the water, salt and pepper then simmer over low heat allowing the meat to be fully cooked.
3. Once the meat is cooked, add the atsuete powder and give a good stir, then add all the remaining ingredients and stir very well until fully combined, then simmer for few minutes until done.
4. Serve hot with any additional toppings that you want to put. Happy eating :-).

Yellow Corn Rice and its Calories

It was 25 years ago since I last ate this yellow corn rice, that's why when I saw this today at the market I bought half a kilo. I thought I will be wrong in my measurement of water but it was just right. I ate some with pork and chicken adobo, so delicious! Have you tasted this kind of rice?

Per 100 grams serving of cooked yellow corn rice  has only 86 calories while white rice has 130 calories.
That's why I switched to yellow corn rice, and I have been eating this for a week now. This is also easy to digest.

Ingredients:
1 cup yellow corn rice
2 cups water

 Procedure:
1. Boil the water, once boiling gradually add the rice,  mix then cover and simmer until dry over medium heat.
2. When it' already dry adjust the heat to low and simmer for few minutes until fully cooked, then serve.

Yellow Fried Rice

A colorful fried rice that will make you tempted to eat it, aromatic because of the powdered turmeric or yellow ginger that gives its fantastic color, I added green peas because my best friend Vince is a green peas fanatic. Vince you can get all the green peas lol.

Ingredients for 4 servings:
4 cups cooked rice
1 carrot ( minced)
1/2 cup green peas
1 cup chopped chicken
1 piece chorizo ( sliced)
4 cloves garlic
1 1/2 tablespoons turmeric powder
some spring onion
salt to taste

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic and onion then add the chopped chicken and simmer until pinkish color is gone.
2. Add the chorizo, turmeric powder, carrots and salt then simmer for a minute.
3. Add the rice and mix well until fully mixed, stir until cooked, then add the green peas and stir until done.
4. Serve it hot with spring onion and enjoy.

Bagoong Rice

Friday is a food trip day, so here is my food trip today, since I have a leftover rice and sauteed shrimp paste, my friend suggested that we will make Alamang Rice, and she gave me an idea how to do it, while we are roasting  the chicken I prepared the ingredients for alamang rice.

Ingredients for 2 servings:
2 1/2 cups cooked rice
1 1/2 tablespoons sauteed shrimp paste (alamang)
5 cloves garlic

cooked rice

sauteed shrimp paste

Procedure:
1. Saute the garlic then add the sauteed shrimp paste, stir well the stir in the rice and mix thoroughly.
2. Continue to stir until done then serve.

Mely's Kitchen Arroz Valenciana

Today we will make a simple and easy way of cooking arroz Valenciana, and I hope that you will try this dish from my kitchen. :-). I like a Valenciana taht is not too sticky that's why I combined the white rice and glutinous rice I designed this recipe specially to those who are just beginning to cook, I will make a very special one soon, God willing. Enjoy cooking.

Ingredients for 6 servings
2 cups cooked glutinous rice ( malagkit)
2 cups cooked  white rice ( the normal rice that we eat during meals)
4 cloves garlic
1 onion
 2 tomatoes
2 pieces chicken hotdog
1/4 kilo pork lean meat( boiled and sliced)
2 chicken drumsticks ( chopped)
2 tablespoon atsuete seeds ( annatto)
3/4 cup water
 1 bell pepper
salt and pepper to taste
1 hard boiled egg 

Optional ingredients
2 chicken liver (optional)
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup green peas

Some of the ingredients

Procedure:
1.In a pan boil the atsuete with 3/4 cup water, let boil for 2 minutes then mix it well ( the darker the color the better) drain and set aside. ( we need 1/2 cup of this)

2. Saute the garlic then the onion and tomato add the chicken meat and liver, salt and pepper then simmer for few minutes. Then add the pork and hot dog then simmer for few minutes, then add the 1/2 cup atsuete water mixture and bell pepper, then simmer until all the ingredients were incorporated with the atsuete color, add salt and pepper if needed.

3. Add the rice and mix well then simmer for few minutes until fully combined. Turn off the heat and add some green peas and raisins if you want.

4. Serve with hard boiled egg slices. Happy eating!