Chicken Tinola

Chicken Tinola

This is one of the best comfort food you would love to eat with rice especially during cold season. Manny Pacquiao's favorite food particularly the one with malunggay leaves. We may use carrots if papaya is not available. 

Ingredients:

1 kg chicken (serving size)

200 gms of green papaya cut into wedges

1 large carrot (sliced)

1 tbsp minced garlic

1 med chopped onion

1 tsp ginger cut into strips.

1/4 cup fish sauce.

1 liter Rice wash

Chili pepper leaves or malunggay leaves

Freshly ground pepper to taste

Procedure:

- Wash chicken then marinade with 3 tbsp fish sauce or salt.

- Saute garlic, onion and ginger.

- Add the chicken then stir well.

- Add freshly ground pepper

- Cover, then lower down heat and let it simmer for 5 mins. 

-  Add the rice wash and the remaining of the fish sauce then let it boil. 

- Add the papaya and carrots then simmer until the papaya is cooked.

- Once the papaya is cooked, add the pepper leaves and serve. 

Pork Tonkatsu

Pork Tonkatsu

The name is Japanese but it is actually western. Kids love this meal. It is usually eaten with hot steamed rice with shredded cabbage on the side. The shredded cabbage doesn't only make the dish look good but it actually goes well with it.  Enjoy.

Ingredients

4 pcs boneless and fat less pork chop or pork loin

1/2 cup flour

2 eggs beaten

1 cup Japanese bread crumbs

salt and pepper to taste

vegetable oil for frying

Procedure:

- Pound the surface of the meat using the back of the knife to tenderize.

- Sprinkle salt and pepper on both sides to season

- Dredge the meat with flour thoroughly then pat to get rid of the excess flour

- Dip the meat in egg

- Cover with breadcrumbs

- Deep fry the meat in medium heat until golden brown approx 8 mins total or until the meat floats. Make sure to fry in low heat as it will burn the breadcrumbs before the meat is cooked.

- Cool for 1 minute then cut into bite size pieces

- Serve with shredded cabbage

- Pour Tonkatsu sauce on top of the meat

Sauce Ingredients  

1/2 cup Tomato Catsup 

1/8 cup Worcestershire sauce

1 tbsp sugar

or

1/2 cup Tomato Catsup 

1/8 cup Knorr liquid seasoning

1 tbsp sugar

or 

1/2 cup Banana Catsup 

1/8 cup Soy sauce

1 tbsp sugar

*You'll just have to be creative with whatever is available. 

Dads Can Cook Too

The popular Chicken Adobo

This blog was made by a daddy for daddies who would like to cook but doesn't have the skill.  So expect that the foods that will be posted here will be the kind that men would prefer. I am not saying that women and children will not appreciate them. They would surely love them. These recipes are family tested. What I would like to imply is that you will not find fancy baking ideas, chic pastries and girly desserts on this blog. But I would probably add some dessert ideas from time to time.

Most of the recipes that I post is not taken from the world wide web like you would often find in most food blogs available. The foods that I have here are the kind that I grew up with. Recipes I created imitating the taste of those that came from the restaurants that we went to since I was a child or from restaurants that we went to recently. Recipes I learned from my mother that was passed on through generations. Generally foods that have touched my palate with my personal touch.

If you're into street food but worry about getting sick from eating it, you will find some street food recipes here. Guaranteed to taste exactly the same as the ones you find on the streets of Metro Manila.Only safer.

Although I am not a drinker, you may still find appetizers of finger foods that will match any alcoholic beverage that will be great to serve during parties.

I would love to help you daddies. Most wives would tell us to keep out of the kitchen. Those days are over. We're here to rule!!!

I hope you and your family would enjoy  the recipes i posted. Good luck fellow dads.

All photographs are original taken by yours truly. Don't be disappointed if your dish won't look the same way as these photos. I do product shots and all these photos are staged.