How to prepare Adobo Burrito

Adobo Burrito

Ingredients for Adobo:

  • 500 grams chicken breast
  • 1/4 cup oil
  • 6 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 cup soy sauce
  • 2 cups vinegar
  • 10 grams pepper corns
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 3 tablespoon liver spread
  • 1 cup coconut cream
  • 3 pieces chili fingers, seeded and chopped
  • 1 pack 7g Aji Ginisa Flavor Seasoning Mix

Ingredients for Burrito:

  • 3 pieces soft tortilla bread (about 8 inches)
  • Romaine lettuce leaves
  • 2 cups steamed rice
  • 1 medium size green bell pepper, diced
  • 1 medium size red bell pepper, diced
  • 500 grams cheddar cheese

Dip:

  • Sour cream

Cooking Methods

  • Heat oil and sauté garlic and chicken pieces. Add the soy sauce, vinegar, peppercorns and bay leaf.
  • Bring to a boil and lower heat.
  • Take out chicken pieces and fry at separate pan to get the brown color.After frying, bring it back to the adobo sauce.
  • In a separate pan, heat coconut cream,  add the chili fingers. Thicken and add to the adobo. Add liver spread to thicken and enhance flavor.
  • Sprinkle Aji Ginisa. Stir thoroughly. Turn off heat and set aside.
  • Once cooled, flake evenly.

Burrito Assembly:

  • Lay down the tortilla pieces. Put lettuce leaves on top.Add adobo sauce to the rice. Put rice on top of the lettuce.Follow with the flaked chicken. Add the bell peppers.
  • Top with grated cheese. Fold and roll.
  • Toast in the oven just for the cheese to melt.
  • Cut each roll into halves and serve with sour cream dip.
  • Makes 3 burritos

How to Prepare Ginisang Upo

Ginisang Upo With Shrimp Juice

Basic Ingredients:

  • 1 Large bottle gourd (upo)
  • 1/4 Lbs Pork fats
  • 1/2 Lbs shrimp
  • 3 Cloves of garlic
  • 1 Onion
  • 1 Tomato
  • 2 Tablespoon fish sauce
  • Cooking oil
  • Salt

Cooking Methods

  • Reduced the amount of rendered fats, sauté garlic, onion and tomato.
  • Add pork and shrimp, stir fry for a couple of minutes.
  • Season with fish sauce and shrimp juice, keep stirring until boil.
  • Add gourd simmer until the vegetable is half cooked.

Shrimp juice

  • Wash shrimps, remove head, peel off shell and tail of each shrimp..
  • Pound shrimp head using mortar and pestle to extract juices.
  • Dilute in 2 c. of warm water and pass thru a sieve to separate shells from the juice.

Render Fats from pork

  • Slice pork fats into cubes or small sizes.
  • Pour a small amount of water into non-stick pan.
  • Add pork, keep stirring until fats are rendered.

Cooking Tips

  • Pork fats can be replace with vegetable oil.
  • Do not overcook the vegetables.