Overseas Pinoy Cooking

Grilled Tanguige Steaks with Star Margarine Garlic Sauce . King fish or Taguige is a tasty but delicate. When sliced into steaks grilling is sometimes tricky. The fish meat will tend to stick to the grills or grilling plates when it is not heated properly. They also disintegrate or break up when turned or fliped prematurely, otherwise grilled tanguige steaks are great and definitely all fish loving Pinoy will agree to me. For my Grilled Tanguige Steaks with Star Margarine Garlic Sauce I used my ever reliable ribbed hotplate. The advantages of using ribbed hotplate are you will have better control on temperatures and easier to flip the fish steaks. Using ribbed hotplates will give a more distinct burn marks to the fish which give more visual appeal. For the sauce of my Grilled Tanguige Steaks with Star Margarine Garlic Sauce , as the name suggest I use Star Margarine instead of butter, I also used kinchay for the aromatics in addition to the fried garlic , these...

Hotplate Grilled Tulingan . I wanted to make sure that my recipe for Inihaw na Talakitok sa Hotplate will work with other similar big sized fish. As expected the fish was cooked perfectly without complicated grilling procedure and minimal cooking effort. It was so beautiful that I could not resist sharing it. Of course preparation and grilling of my Hotplate Grilled Tulingan is similar to how I grilled my Inihaw na Talakitok sa Hotplate . Here is how I grilled my Hotplate Grilled Tulingan . Ingredients: 1 large tulingan about 1 kilo or more 2-3 stalk lemon grass, trimmed, stem crushed juice from 1 lemon salt and pepper banana leaves aluminum foil hotplate Cooking procedure: Remove gills and of the fish using a scissor cut pins and tail. Make some diagonal slit at both sides of the fish making sure that the slits are deep, up to the fishbone and all the way to the stomach to remove the innards. Wash fish including cavities and drain. Rub ...

Pinoy Grilled Prawns with Garlic and Cheese is our grilled version of our Baked Prawns with Garlic and Cheese . Instead of baking, the prawns were grilled in open fire or charcoals. Grilling prawns tricky, the shells tend to burn immediately leaving the prawn meats uncooked.   To grill our Pinoy Grilled Prawns with Garlic and Cheese properly, the heat or flames shall be maintained at moderate heat and always keeping an eye of the occasional surge of flames caused by the dripping butter. The Pinoy Grilled Prawns with Garlic and Cheese is definitely recommended special dish for our coming Christmas or New Year dinner. Here is the recipe of my Pinoy Grilled Prawns with Garlic and Che ese, try it! Ingredients: 10-12 large size tiger prawns, cleaned, trimmed 1/2 block cheddar cheese, grated 1/2 block quickmelt cheese, grated 1/4 block salted butter, grated 1/4 block salted butter, melted 3-4 tbsp. minced garlic 1/2 lemon Cooking procedure : ...

Baked Tinapa . Tinapa what-ever type of fish is one of our favorite Pinoy fish dish , but it cooking leave’s a smoky fishy odor on your kitchen walls and curtains that will linger for days. Today I am again craving for tinapa but the last time I cooked it, that smoky fishy odor even get into my office shirt. Well I have thought of cooking tinapa in an oven to reduced the smoky fishy odor and today it’s time to try it and let see if we could at least minimize the odor beside making it as yummy or even better than frying the tinapa . To bake the tinapa I needed some aromatic ingredients that will go with my bake tinapa but I found out that I have anything special in the ref and cupboard except onions, tomatoes and lemons. So I have to stick to the basic Pinoy ingredients and it return it is more authentic Pinoy dish , the final product? It did come out great and the tinapa smoky fishy odor was confined inside the oven and it was overwhelmed by the aroma of the onions. ...

Inihaw na Tawilis, Pusit, Talong, Okra at Sili served with bagoong balayan with kalamansi , how is that for a lunch or dinner . Are you drooling now? To most Pinoy inihaw or grilled be it fish , vegetable or meat is something that make us hungry instantly. On this post I have a platter of grilled fish, squid and vegetable to offer. Grilled or inihaw na tawilis is one sought after dish in Batangas , towns around Taal Lake where the fish, a fresh water sardine are said to be only located. Tawilis are most often available at Shopwise at Festival Mall and South Supermarket both at Filinvest Alabang . There is no real recipe for this post but for the benefit of those who are learning how to cook here’s how I made this platter of Ihihaw na Tawilis, Pusit, Talong, Okra at Sili . Ingredients: 1/2 kilo tawilis, innards removed, rinse drained 1/2 kilo large squid, innards removed, rinsed, drained 1 bundle green long chili 1 bundle okra, trimmed 2 medium size eggplant, ...

Grilled Tuna Steak, Inihaw na Bariles . The easiest method to grill a tuna steak is by pan grilling, however if you have a heavy grilling plate the result will be far better. They are convenient just heat the plates in your stove, and you can now grill indoors. I would suggest to set your overhead stove exhaust to maximum settings and open all your kitchen windows. The grilling plate that I used for this recipe has ridges that will make real grill marks on the fish. For this recipe I just marinated the fish steak with soy sauce, kalamansi and some Knorr liquid seasoning. Here is the recipe of this easy Grilled Tuna Steak, Inihaw na Bariles , enjoy. Ingredients: 3 to 4 slices of tuna steaks 1/3 cup soy sauce 3 to 5 kalamansi, juice extracted Knorr liquid seasoning Cooking procedure: Marinate the tuna steaks with the mixture of soy sauce, kalamansi and a few dash of Knorr liquid seasoning for at least 5 minutes. Heat the hot plate until it start...