Special Pork Adobo with Mushroom

Special Pork Adobo with Mushroom

I want to share with you my new kitchen experiments that was made a week ago when thinking of what to cook for our dinnertime based on what foods were available at home.

Finding out some pork at our refrigerator, the first dish came out of my mind was to cook Pork Adobo. Maybe because its so easy to cook, short cooking time and so simple to prepare. With this dish, I just added mushroom, onions and 7-up soda to make it more delicious than the usual.

Adobo is an all-time Filipino's favorite dish, it becomes much more delicious when preserved for some days at refrigerator then re-heat for few minutes before serving.

Ingredients:

1/2 kilo pork, cut into pieces

1/2 cup vinegar

1 cup 7-up, may use Sprite if not available

5-6 tbsp oyster sauce

3 tbsp catsup

4 tbsp Knorr Seasoning Original

1 can whole mushroom, sliced

 1/4 cup garlic, minced

1/4 cup onion rings

2 tbsp butter

salt and pepper

Procedures:

1.  In a cooking pan, put pork cut pieces, garlic, vinegar and water.
2. Let it simmer, remove unnecessary pork residue when boiling.
3. Add oyster sauce, knorr seasoning and pepper.
4. Stir occasionally until medium cook.
5. Add catsup and oil, season to taste.
6. Cook until pork are cooked and sauce thicken.
7. Set aside
8. Heat butter in a pan over medium fire.
9. Saute onion rings until becomes translucent
10. Add mushroom and pinch of salt.
11. Add cooked pork adobo, stir well until becomes even.
12. Let it simmer for 1-2 minutes, then remove from fire
13. Serve hot with rice.

Chicken Curry with Mushroom

 I already saw and tasted my Mother and other closed relatives preparing this menu during fiesta and family occassion, but I never tried to cook by myself.

Until one day, when watching Kris Aquino's latest morning show named Kris TV, she did cooking demo of this meal. I just noticed that she added button mushroom and used canned coconut cream in her dish. It's something unusual that what I usually saw with the others. The finished product really looks so yummy and I started to crave for its tastes.

Since my kids loves to eat foods with mushroom, I really got the interest to try it by myself. Looking forward for sometime to be free to do so. 

As a working Mom, it's always been my heart's desire to try new recipes for my family and kids especially during weekend. I have more time to spend in our kitchen, where I don't need to be in a hurry, unlike during week days. 

In one way or another, this is just my simple way of showing them how I really wanted to spend more quality time with them.

Finally, last Saturday we had no work and found some time to tried it. The taste of curry powder and coconut milk complements with each other. It's creamy and yummy. Better to try it for yourself to find out.

After all the efforts to make it as delicious as possible, well I truly glad that my kids liked it and mentioned "Sana po lagi na lang nasa bahay si Mama, para po masarap ang kain namin! Ang sarap, sarap po talaga!"

Ingredients:

1 kilo chicken, cut into pieces

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp ground black pepper

1-2 cup carrots, cut into cubes

1-2 cup potatoes, cut into cubes

1 /2 cup red bell pepper, cut into cubes

1 can whole mushroom, sliced 

1 piece onion, sliced

3 pieces garlic, minced

1/2 cup cooking coil

2 tbsp butter

1/2 -1 tsp curry powder

2 cup thick coconut milk

Preparations:

1. Clean cut chicken, drain well

2. Season chicken with salt and pepper.

3. Heat cooking oil in a skillet. Add chicken and butter. Cook over medium heat.

4. Cook chicken until done, then set aside

5. Using the same skillet, pan fry potatoes and carrots. Set aside when cooked

6. Get around 2 tablespoon of cooking oil on oil used for frying chicken and heat this in a saucepot.

7. Saute' garlic and onion until transparent.

8. Add cooked chicken, potatoes and carrots

9. Add mushroom and bell pepper.

10. Add coconut milk, season with salt and pepper.

11. Simmer the chicken in the coconut milk until the sauce is thick and almost dry.

12. Serve hot

 Thank you for spending your time in viewing this post. May your family likes it taste the same as time. God Bless us all.