Pancit Guisado

Ingredients:
½ k. bihon bihon (noodles)
¼ k. pork sliced
¼ k. shrimp
½ cup kinchay, sliced 1"-length
cabbage, sliced
2 pcs. bean curd
½ cup onions, chopped
2 pcs. tomatoes
fish sauce
Cooking oil
Soup stock

Directions:
Cook the pork until tender and slice.
In a separate pan, fry the bean curds; set aside.
Saute the garlic, onion and tomatoes; followed by the shrimps.
Add the pork and bean curd.
Season with fish sauce.
Add the cabbage and kinchay.
Add the stock.
Allow to simmer for a few seconds.
Add the noodles and stir, until it has absorbed all the liquid.
Serve immediately.

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Hopia de Piña

Ingredients:
For the filling:
500 gms. crushed pineapple in heavy syrup
250 gms. sugar
150 gms. light syrup
For the outer crust:
500 gms. all-purpose flour
90 gms. sugar
270 gms. water
1 tsp. salt
2 pcs. eggyolks

For the paste for the crust:
375 gms. soft flour
200 gms. butter or lard
For the eggwash:
1 pc. egg

Directions:
To prepare the filling:
Combine all ingredients and cook over medium heat for 25 to 30 minutes or until sticky and almost dry; set aside.
Cool or refrigerate.

To prepare the outer crust:
Place flour on a flat surface and make a well in the center and knead.
Make sure dough is still underdeveloped (dough is soft and breaks easily).
Set aside.

To prepare the paste for crust:
Mix ingredients for paste.
Set aside.
Fluff down the outer crust dough.
With the aid of a rolling pin, form dough into a rectangle that is ½" -thick.
Spread paste on the surface of the outer crust dough.
Fold one end of the dough going towards the middle.
Fold the other end going to the same direction.
Flatten to ½" -thickness again using the rolling pin.
Repeat 2 more times then divide dough into 3 pieces.
Form each piece into a "baston" then cut into 20-gram equal portions.

Flatten each dough piece and place 10-gram filling.
Mould.
Brush with eggwash.
Bake in a preheated oven at 350ºF for 25 to 30 minutes.
Makes 70 pieces.

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Cassava Cake

Ingredients:
7 cups cassava, grated
3 pcs. whole egg
2 1/2 cups sugar
1 can condensed milk
1/4 cup margarine

Directions:
Mix all the ingredients in a saucepan until texture becomes fine.
Arrange the mixture in a muffin pan.
Bake for 30 to 35 minutes.
Serve.

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Banana and Langka Spring Roll

Ingredients:
1 pc. saba banana, thinly-sliced
40 gms. sweetened langka
3 pcs. lumpia wrapper, small
2 tbsps. brown sugar
5 gms. sesame seeds
1 scoop vanilla ice cream
For the flour paste:
1 tbsp. flour, diluted in
1 tbsp. water

Directions:
Place the sliced bananas and langka on the lumpia on the lumpia wrapper.
Sprinkle brown sugar.
Roll and seal with flour paste.
Fry until golden brown.
Roll cooked turon on toasted sesame seeds.
Serve with vanilla ice cream.

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Golden Maja Kalabasa

Ingredients:
2/3 cup squash, boiled and mashed
1 378 ml. can evaporated milk
2/3 cup water
3/4 cup condensed milk
2 tsps. kalamansi juice
1/2 cup cornstarch
1 tbsp. butter or margarine

Directions:
Combine all ingredients except butter or margarine.
Mix well and bring to a boil while stirring until thickens.
Add butter or margarine.
Pour into a mold and allow to set.
Cut and serve.

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