Sweet and Sour Sauce

Ingredients

• 4 T. vinegar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 3  T. catsup
• 1 cup water
• 2 T.cornstarch
• 2 T. tomato paste
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 T. chili flakes (optional) 

Directions:

1. Combine all the ingredients in the sauce pan. Mix very well.
2. Cook over medium low heat, stirring constantly with whisk until thickened. 
3. Season with salt and pepper according to your taste.
4. Remove from heat. Serve immediately, or cover and refrigerate up to 2 weeks. 

Dipping sauce for Siomai

Ingredients:

• garlic, minced
• red pepper flakes
• cooking oil
• soy sauce
• calamansi or lemon juice

Directions:

1. Heat 3 tablespoon oil ( vegetable or sesame oil)
2. Saute 2 cloves minced garlic, let brown a little bit. Stir occasionally.
3. Add in pepper flakes (according to your taste). Remove from heat immediately to stop the chili flakes from burning.
4. Serve with soy sauce and calamansi juice according to your taste.

Check for Siomai recipe here.

Chicken Cordon Bleu in Tomato Sauce

Chicken Cordon Bleu, another favorite in any  Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) gatherings. It is easy to prepare with the ingredients readily available in the kitchen, not to mention that the chicken is very affordable. I like to have it in creamy white sauce and even like it more with tomato sauce.

For this recipe I tried both the tomato and white sauce.

Ingredients:

• 2 whole boneless chicken breasts
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 4 slices eden cheese
• 4 slices cooked ham, 1/8 inch thick
• 6 tbsp. flour
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 tbsp. water
• 6 tbsp. fine dry bread crumbs
• 4 tbsp. butter

Directions:

1. Remove skin from chicken breasts. 
2. Hold sharp knife parallel to cutting board and along one long side of breast; cut almost in half, leaving breast attached at one side. Open breast so it lies flat. Place the opened chicken breasts in between sheets of plastic wrap, using a meat mallet, lightly pound to 1/4-inch thickness.
3. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
4. Lay a slice of cheese and ham on each piece of breast and roll. 
5. Season the flour with salt and pepper. Beat together the eggs, season with salt and pepper. Mix the bread crumbs with butter to help the crust brown.
6. Dip chicken in beaten eggs, then dredge in flour, then in egg again and finally in crumbs. Lightly coat a baking pan with butter and bake chicken at 350 for 20 to 25 minutes until browned and cooked through.
7. Slice and serve with sauce if desired.

For the Tomato Sauce:

• cooking oil 
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 cup chicken broth or water
• 1/2 cup canned tomato sauce
• 1/4 cup liver spread (optional)
• salt and pepper to taste
• excess chicken fillings, cut into small peaces

Directions:

1. Heat oil in a sauce pan. Sautee garlic and onion. 
2. Add tomato sauce and chicken broth broth. 
3. Add bay leaf and excess chicken fillings. Bring to a boil.
4. Add liver spread into sauce and stir until dissolved. 
5. Season with salt and pepper to taste. 
6. Continue to cook for about 5 minutes or until sauce is thickened.
7.  Pour sauce over chicken. Slice and serve hot.

Sweet and Sour Sauce

My husband loves lumpiang shanghai or he call it egg roll. I make vegetable and meat egg roll but he likes the meat better than the other. A sauce makes a difference in any simple dish. In my kitchen, lumpiang shanghai is not complete without the sweet and sour sauce. You  can use catsup, salsa or vinegar dip. Sweet and sour sauce is easy to prepare, you can find all the ingredients in the kitchen. Making our own sauce saves money plus you are sure that it is fresh and no added preservatives. Sweet and sour sauce can be use as a dip or pour our over meatballs, smoked sausage, vegetables, etc. If you want to add heat, just add in crushed red pepper flakes depending on how hot you want it.

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 tablespoons tomato ketchup
• 1 teaspoon cornstarch
• 2 tablespoon white vinegar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• dash of ground black pepper
• pepper flakes (optional)

Procedure:

1. Combine all the ingredients in the sauce pan. Mix very well.
2. Cook over medium low heat, stirring constantly with whisk until thickened. *For a hot and spicy sauce, you can add in 1/8 tsp  pepper flakes or depending on how hot you want it.
3. Remove from heat. Serve immediately, or cover and refrigerate up to 2 weeks. 

Lumpiang shanghai recipe
How to Wrap Egg Rolls

Alfredo Sauce

Home made Alfredo Sauce is actually very easy if you know how to make white sauce. They are basically the same, the only difference is the addition of cheese.

Chicken Alfredo Pasta

Ingredients:

• Ragu classic Alfredo Sauce - 1 Jar (16 oz) 
• 1 cup sour cream 
• 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese 
• 1 package spaghetti noodles, cook according to package direction 
• 1 whole chicken breast, boiled and cut into bite size 
• 1 cup broccoli florets, blanch 
• salt and pepper to taste

KFC gravy

At last, after a long time of longing for a gravy at KFC, they decided to give costumer the satisfaction of eating fried chicken dipped in a sauce. Just last month they started selling the much awaited gravy  and everybody was so happy about  it. My friends who tasted it already said that it taste like the Philippine gravy and a must try.

So yesterday, I  headed at a KFC drive thru to get   me and my son our favorite spicy fried chicken and gravy. I did not order one for hubby because I was not sure if he will still work overtime or not  so I just order him a medium size super supreme Pizza hut afterward.

I already ate all the chicken before  I remember  to take a photo of it. Gravy was really yummy. I will surely grab another one again. Thank you KFC- Qatar for bringing gravy back into our lives.