Home Made Barbecue Sauce

Your barbecue tastes better if you baste it with barbecue sauce. There are a lot of commercial barbecue sauce in the market but if you want to make at home, here is a sample recipe for delicious barbecue sauce.

Ingredients:

• 3 tablespoons margarine
• 4 tablespoons flour
• 1 cup water
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• dash of pepper

Procedure:

1. Melt margarine in skillet.
2. Blend in flour.
3. Add water, soy sauce and pepper.
4. Cook until mixture is thick, stirring constantly.

Pork Barbecue

Pork Barbecue is one of the special recipes in many Filipino occasions. Everybody love it especially the children.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 kg lean pork, sliced
• 1/4 kg liver, sliced
• 5 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1/2 cup calamansi juice
• 1/4 tsp pepper
• 1/4 cup soy sauce

Procedure:

1. Mix all ingredients in a bowl.
2. Marinate pork pieces for 2 to 3 hours.
3. Arrange the pork pieces in bamboo skewers.
4. Broil over live charcoal.
5. Baste with barbecue sauce while broiling.

Chicken Pastel

Chicken Pastel Filipino Style.

Ingredients:

• 1 chicken, cut up and boned
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon kalamansi juice
• 5 cups cold water
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salts
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 pc chorizo de bilbao, sliced
• 1 cup Vienna sausage, sliced
• 1 cup broth
• 1 pc carrot, cut into cubes
• 3 pcs potato, cut into cubes
• 1 can cream soup
• 1/2 cup green olives
• 1/2 cup mushrooms
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 2 hard-cooked egg, sliced

Cooking Procedure:

1. Marinate chicken pieces in soy sauce and kalamansi juice
2. Place them in a saucepan with water, salt and pepper; let boil and simmer until tender
3. Melt butter in skillet. Brown the chicken.
4. Drop in slices of chorizo de bilbao and Vienna sausage.
5. Pour in the broth. Cover and cook until half done.
6. Add green olives, carrots, potatoes, mushrooms and cream soup.
7. Cook everything together. Thicken with flour if necessary. Season well.
8. Transfer cooked mixture to a baking dish then garnish with slices of hard-cooked eggs.
9. Cover the dish with pie crust.
10. Bake at 204 Degrees Celsius  for about 40 to 50 minutes until crust is golden brown.
11. Serve hot.

Bibingkang Galapong

Bibingkang Galapong is otherwise known as Coconut Rice Cheesecake.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups enriched rice soaked and ground in 1/2 cup water
• 1 cup rich coco milk
• 1 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder for every cup of the mixture
• 3 tablespoon butter of margarine
• 8 eggs well beaten
• grated cheese

Procedure:

1. Mix the ground enriched rice and sugar. 
2. Add the butter, baking powder and the well beaten eggs with rich coco milk.
3. Pour into pie and cake pans lined with wilted banana leaf.
4. The pans should only be two thirds (2/3) full.
5. Bake in moderate oven until slightly brown.
6. Sprinkle with grated cheese or sugar.
7. Bake again to finish browning.