CHICKEN WITH CASHEW NUTS

Ingredients:
1 medium size chicken cut into serving pieces and boiled
100 grams frozen peas
¼ cup (100 grams) cashew nuts
1 stem celery sliced
1 carrot diced and boiled
2 cups chicken broth
2 tbsp. flour
1 medium onion sliced
Salt and pepper to taste
Butter

Procedure:
1. Sauté onion in butter. Blend in flour and add broth stirring well until sauce thickens.
2. Add chicken and cook for 10 minutes. Add the rest of the ingredients except cashew nuts. Season well.
3. Add cashew nuts and immediately remove from the heat. Serve.

PANCIT PALABOK

Ingredients:
½ kg. bihon, soaked in water until softened then drain
Palabok Sauce
¼ cup atsuete seeds soak in
¼ cup water
2 cups shrimp juice
6 tablespoons Gold Medal all-purpose flour
½ cup water
Salt or patis and pepper
Toppings
1 cup cooked pork, cut into strips
2 pcs. fried tokwa, cubed
½ cup flaked tinapa
½ cup pounded chicharon
2 eggs hard (boiled then sliced)
½ cup boiled and shelled shrimps
½ cup finely chopped spring onions
1 tbsp. fried garlic

Procedure:
1. Prepare palabok sauce: Strain atsuete then combine atsuete water with shrimp juice in a saucepan. Disperse flour in water then add to the pan. Bring to a boil and cook with constant stirring until thick. Season to taste.
2. Boil water in a pot. Place noodles in a bamboo strainer. Dip in the boiling water and cook until tender but firm. Drain well. Transfer to a platter.
3. Top noodles with sauce. Over the sauce, arrange the pork and tokwa pieces. Sprinkle with tinapa and chicharon. Garnish with sliced egg, shrimps, spring onions and garlic. Serve with calamansi.

CHICKEN IN QUAIL EGGS

Ingredients:
1 whole chicken (cut into serving pieces)
12 pcs. quail eggs, shelled
1 red pepper
1 potato sliced
1 onion sliced
2 cups chicken broth
3 tbsp. flour
2 tsp. worcestershire sauce
2 tsp. soy sauce
Oil for frying
Salt and pepper to taste
Calamansi juice

Procedure:
1. Marinate chicken in calamansi juice and seasonings. Fry in oil until light golden brown. Drain and set aside.
2. Saute onion until tender in a separate pan. Blend in flour and stir well. Add broth stirring until the mixture thickens. Add the rest of ingredients together with fried chicken. Add seasonings. Serve.

HOME MADE BANANA CAKE

Ingredients:
3 ½ cup all purpose flour, sifted 3 time
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. baking soda
10 pcs. ripe lakatan or green bananas
1 ¼ cup diluted sour milk (3/4 evaporated milk, ½ cup water, 2 tsp. calamansi juice)
½ cup butter or margarine
2 cups mascovado or centrifugal sugar
2 whole eggs

Procedure:
1. Assemble all ingredients and utensils.
2. Sift and measure cake flour.
3. Measure and add to flour baking soda and baking powder.
4. Cream butter until fluffy.
5. Add brown sugar gradually then add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition.
6. Add flour and milk alternately.
7. Add mashed bananas and blend well.
8. Place in greased muffin tins.
9. Bake in pre-heated oven 350°F for 25-30 mins.