Chicken Sotanghon Soup

Chicken Sotanghon Soup

This dish was one of my youngest daughter "Iya", favorites merienda meal. She loves it more when served with more chicken, soup and eggs. 

Its a simple and affordable dish to prepare during snack time, good for kids and young at hearts. Best to served when hot especially during rainy season to keep you warm.

Ingredients:

1/2 kilo chicken breast, cleaned (may add chicken liver, optional)
4 ounces Sotanghon (Vermicelli Noodles)
1 piece onion, minced
4 cloves garlic, minced
3 tablespoons onion leeks, chopped
5 cups water
2 tablespoons toasted garlic
2 to 3 tablespoon Patis (fish sauce)
3/4 cup cabbage, shredded
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 piece chicken bouillon

Cooking procedure:

1. Boil chicken breast in a sauce pan, add little salt or fish sauce to add flavors.
2. Cook chicken until tender then let it drain and cool, set aside chicken stocks.
3. Separate the chicken meat from the bone then tear the meat into strips or small pieces. Set aside.
4. Soak Sotanghon noodles in water for about 6 minutes. Cut into desired length.
5. In a cooking pot, heat oil then then sauté garlic and onion.
6. Add in chicken strips, fish sauce, ground black pepper and chicken bouillon.
7. Pour the chicken stock and let boil. Let it simmer.
8. Add cabbage, onion leeks and sotanghon noodles. 
9. Simmer for another 3 minutes then remove from fire.
10. Put desired serving size in a bowl.
11. Top with toasted garlic and hard boiled eggs
12. Serve hot, share and enjoy!

Mami Noodles Soup

Mami Noodles Soup

It was a weekend afternoon when my kids craved for "Mami", to serve as their merienda meal. Since we need to spend our cash within the budget, eating outside was never been an option. 

To satisfy their craving for Mami, I looked for available meat and vegetables inside our refrigerator. After a while, I tried to cooked pork mami instead of chicken and beef brisket mami usually served at Chinese restaurants.

Let me share with one of those many experimental dishes that I learned and instantly tried at our kitchen. A simple way to show my kids my eagerness to grant their request with the best that I can and with the most economical resources available at our kitchen.

I maybe the one of those million Mothers worldwide whose heart desires is to serve their family with a simple, delicious. affordable and lutong-bahay dishes whenever at home.

Ingredients

1/4 kilo pork liempo, boiled (may use chicken, beef or pork, depending on your choice)

2 pieces beef cubes

5 cups water

2 tbsp cooking oil

1 tbsp minced garlic

1 medium sized onion, minced

1 piece carrot, julienne

1/4 cup green onions, chopped

1 cup cabbage, chopped 

1 large stalk celery (optional)

2-4 tbsp fish sauce (patis)
14 ounces egg noodles, cooked

hard boiled eggs

salt and pepper to taste

Cooking Procedures:

1. Boil pork liempo in a sauce pot, add little fish sauce. 
2. Cook until tender, cut into strip when done. Set aside.
3. Using pork stocks, blanch cabbages then cut into strips when done. Set aside.
4. Heat oil in a cooking pot, saute' garlic and onions.
5. Add cut strip pork, cook until color turns light brown.
6. Add carrots then stir.
7. Add pork stock and water then let it boil. 
8. Add beef cubes, salt and pepper to taste.
9. May add fish sauce to add saltiness.
10. Place the cooked egg noodles and blanched cabbage in a serving bowl
11. Pour the soup, pork strips on the bowl with noodles.
12. Garnish with sliced boiled egg and green onions
13. Serve hot. Share and Enjoy!

Toppings and condiments (Optional)

3 hard-boiled eggs, sliced
toasted garlic
spring onion, thinly sliced or chopped
calamansi slices
ground black pepper
fish sauce

Creamy Chicken Sopas

Creamy Chicken Sopas

One of the easiest dish to prepare at home that will surely loves by kids anytime of the day. Best of all, an opportunity for Mothers like me to encourage their kids to eat vegetables during meal time. Since vegetable ingredients were cut into small cubes, it helped me a lot to convinced my kids that vegetables are delicious, needed by our body to keep healthy.

Ingredients
3 tablespoons cooking oil
1 medium sized onion, diced
1/2 kilo boneless skinless chicken breast, cut into strips
4-6 cups chicken broth
2 cups elbow macaroni or spaghetti noodles, cut into 1 inch long
3/4 cup carrots, diced
3/4 cup potato, diced
3/4 cup cabbage; shredded
3-4 pieces Purefoods Jumbo hotdog, diced
1 piece celery stalk, chopped
1 piece knorr chicken cubes
1 big can evaporated milk
2 pieces egg, white
1-2 cup water

Preparation:

1. In a saucepan, boil chicken breast, season with a pinch of salt 
2. Reserve chicken stock. Manually remove chicken meat from the bones. Set aside. 
3. In a saucepan, heat oil in a medium heat. 
4. Saute garlic and onion until becomes transparent 
5. Add boneless chicken breasts and cook for 3 to 5 minutes. 
6. Add carrots and potatoes. Sprinkle some salt and ground black pepper and stir. 
7. Add chicken broth and bring to a boil. 
8. Add macaroni noodles. Let it simmer for 10-12 minutes until becomes "al dente" 
9. Stir occasionally then add evaporated milk, eggs and chicken cube. 
10. Add cabbage, celery, salt and pepper to taste. Add water if needed. 
11. Remove hard boiled egg to cut into small pieces 
12. Let it simmer until completely cooked. Remove from fire. 
13. Serve hot, top with hard boiled egg. 
14. Share and enjoy! 

Note:
1. You may red bell pepper, chicken liver and cheese, just like how other cooked this dish. Thank you very much.