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How to Cook Prawns with Vegetables in Sweet Chili Sauce

Heat vegetable oil in pan. Add onions and garlic. Add Baguio beans, white beans, carrots, onion rings, bell pepper, and cabbage. Sauté. Add prawns, sauté until they turn red. Put 1 cup of water in the pan and wait until it boils, then get the prawns out of the pan, leaving the vegetables.

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Published at 2018-03-24 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Filipino cooking

Tags: Chili, Sweet, Vegetables, sauce

It's All Good: Sweet & Sour Pork Recipe

Cut the pork into small 1-inch chunks. Marinade it in the soy sauce and cornstarch for about 20 minutes, making sure to mix it well for the pork to be flavored evenly.

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Published at 2018-03-23 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Filipino cooking

Tags: Pork, Recipe, Sweet

Celebrate Pinoy-Style Christmas: Serve Sweet Delicious Ham

There are many varieties of ham but Filipinos mostly prefer the sweeter ones. That is why sweet hams usually soaked in pineapple are best sellers come Christmas time. Want to earn extra income this December? It’s the perfect month to sell hams. We’ll share to you a recipe brought to you by an accredited DTI Livelihood Trainer. You can serve it on your Noche Buena table or even gift it to your dear ones.

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Published at 2018-03-22 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Filipino cooking

Tags: Sweet

Alupe: A Sweet and Sticky Pinoy Dessert

Alupe or alupi is a cassava-based kakanin that is well loved by Filipinos most especially by Ilonggos. This native delicacy is usually prepared for snacks and can be found in most parts of Western Visayas.

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Published at 2018-03-22 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Filipino cooking

Tags: Desserts, Pinoy, Sweet

Guimaras – the Home of Sweet Mangoes

Guimaras is one of the favorite tourist destinations in the Philippines not just because of the sweet mangoes that it offers but also because of its numerous pristine beaches and refreshing waterfalls. If you want to travel to Guimaras, here are the things that you must look forward to.

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Published at 2018-03-21 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Travel

Tags: Guimaras, Mango, Sweet

Escabeche (Sweet-And-Sour Fish)

This dish has Spanish roots. The original Iberian version kept cooked fish in a seasoned sauce of wine or wine vinegar overnight. The Chinese interpretation, however, became the Filipino prototype: fried batter-dipped fish soaking in a freshly made sweet-and-sour sauce redolent with ginger strips, red pimiento and carrot flowerets [Felice Sta. Maria, The Governor-General’s Kitchen]

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Published at 2018-03-14 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Filipino cooking

Tags: Escabeche, Sweet, fishing

Minatamis Na Saging (Sweetened Saba Bananas)

Bananas grow everywhere in the Philippines. On the streets, in backyards, at commercial spaces, and of course at banana farms and plantations. Banana trees to the Philippines are what lemon trees are to California. I guess that’s why the Philippines is one of the main global exporters of bananas.

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Published at 2018-03-14 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Filipino cooking

Tags: Sweet

Tupig

The scent of burnt banana leaves and sweet coconut floated through the air and I saw tupigwas being sold by street vendors. Tupig are thin, long, log-shaped kakanin wrapped in banana leaves. They are made of coconut, sugar, sweet rice grains soaked overnight, molasses and rice flour.

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Published at 2018-03-13 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Filipino cooking

Tags: Sweet, coconut

Sweet, Salty and Sour; but Not That Spicy.

The Filipino cuisine is an exotic blend of many different cultural influences from both sides of the Pacific and reflects the multi-ethnic history of this tropical archipelago. Over time this mixture of the various indigenous and colonial cuisines created the unique dishes that are filled with a diverse richness of flavours, colours and traditions.

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Published at 2018-03-05 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Filipino cooking, Food and Dining

Tags: Sweet