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Healthy Chicken Macaroni Soup

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Healthy chicken macaroni soup or chicken sopas, a Filipino soup. This is often requested during rainy season or cooler months. Easy to make and very economical and all ingredients should be available in your refrigerator and pantry. Normally chicken macaroni soup or sopas should be creamy, the recipe includes evaporated milk and also chopped red sausage to this soup. And I want my soup lighter and hearty and I cook it without the milk. Best serve chicken macaroni soup or chicken sopas with bread rolls or pandesal . Garnish your chicken macaroni soup or sopas with chopped spring onion and season with freshly grind peppercorn. How to make healthy chicken macaroni soup Ingredients to make chicken macaroni soup 500 grams chicken breast 1.2 litres water 1 onion, finely chopped 1 ½ cups uncooked macaroni 1 cup carrot, finely diced 1 cup celery, finely diced 2 cups cabbage sliced thinly ½ cup red capsicum chopped into small cubed 2 chicken stock cubes Salt and freshly grind pepper corn Instru

Strawberry Banana Smoothies

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Strawberry banana smoothies, what a great morning to start a healthy drink with all the fresh ingredients, a bunch of fresh strawberries, bananas a tablespoon of honey and a cup full of milk. Very refreshing and delicious, perfect for summer or anytime of the day. Strawberry banana smoothies is so easy to make, you only need a blender and add in all ingredients. Blend for 2-3 minutes and you will have a delicious and healthy drinks. You can have smoothies anytime of the day great for breakfast, lunch, dinner or for dessert just add extra vanilla ice cream or strawberry flavored ice cream. You can substitute milk with soy milk and yogurt plain or flavored yogurt. Smoothies are very versatile you can add any fresh fruits available in your local supermarket or flea markets. Fruits like mangoes, pineapple, rock melon, ripe papaya, blueberries or any berries, fresh or frozen will do. How to make strawberry banana smoothies Ingredients: 1 cup fresh strawberries 2 cups chopped bananas 1 cup

Filipino Chicken Adobo

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Filipino chicken adobo this is one of the most popular dish in the Philippines. Because it is very economical dish, only few ingredients and you can make this delicious dish in 30 minutes. This recipe is very easy and simple to make, a one pot dish. Adobo is very versatile, it's only require a few ingredients that already available in your pantry. Like soy sauce, vinegar, oyster sauce. You can use any meat that you already have in your fridge like pork, chicken, chicken liver, beef, fish, squid and even lamb. You can substitute meat into vegetables adobo like, kangkong (water spinach), long beans, potatoes, carrots, mushroom and even eggplants. If you are vegetarian you can use tofu instead of meat. Chicken adobo best serve with special garlic rice, quinoa, steam rice, mashed potatoes, cauliflower fired rice, or bread roll best match with my pandesal. Click for the recipes. I like to matched my adobo with pickled papaya or atchara the sweetness and sour, is great combination of th

3 Ingredients Easy Pork Char Siu

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Easy pork char siu or Chinese BBQ pork which available in any Chinese restaurant menu. This recipe is simple to make using ready-to-use Lee Kum Kee Char Siu sauce that is widely available in any supermarket. This char siu recipe has a similar taste to Filipino tocino, the bacon of the Philippines. Tocino is a sweet red cured pork, we serve this for breakfast with garlic rice and matched with fried eggs. The best meat for char siu is pork belly, pork shoulder, or pork butt sliced thinly around one centimeter thick. Best to marinate the meat overnight for tasty and yummy char siu. This taste like tocino if you add 4-5 gloves of chopped garlic and season with pepper. How to Make Char Siu - Chinese BBQ pork Ingredients to make char siu 500-gram pork shoulder (pork belly, pork butt) sliced thinly 1cm thick 4 tablespoon Lee Kum Kee Char Siu sauce 4-5 cloves garlic chopped 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper 1/2 cup water 3 tablespoon oil Instruction on how to cook char siu In a large bowl add pork,

Quick and Easy Chicken Wings with Mung Bean Sprouts

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A Simple chicken wings with mung bean sprouts recipe this is a great recipe for a busy night, very quick and easy to prepare and cook. This recipe is ready in just 30 minutes and is better than takeaway food. Chicken wings can be marinated a day before to have a tasty chicken. This is really delicious especially if using your own homemade bean sprouts and this is quite satisfying.                                                    How to Cook Simple Chicken with Mung Bean Sprouts Recipe Ingredients to cook simple chicken wings recipe 1 kg chicken wings (separate into 2 pieces see note) 2 cups mung bean sprouts 1 cup carrot julienne ½ cup red capsicum julienne ½ c chicken stock 3 stalks of spring onion chopped 3 cloves of garlic chopped 3 tablespoons oil Salt and pepper Note: To separate the wings into two pieces, cut through joints with a knife or pair of scissors. Chicken Marinade 1 tablespoon soy sauce 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce 1 tablespoon oyster sauce Instructions to cook Mongol

How to Grow Bean Sprouts in a Bowl with Colander

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How to grow bean sprouts out of mung beans is very easy and simple to make. This is an economical way rather than buying it to your supermarket since mung beans are inexpensive to buy. All you need is patients and you will harvest in 3 to 5 days. This is a very fresh and crunchy bean sprouts to add to your dish for cooking or for garnishing. Sprouting Method There are many ways to prepare your bean sprouts you can make this just using gadget that you already have or invest to a proper seed sprouter. Bowl with colander - you can purchase this in Kmart for A$1.50 this is the method I used if I only need small amount of bean sprouts. Or use larger coriander just find mixing bowl that fits. Jar - this is the inexpensive way if you just using a large recycled jar, cover with muslin cloth and tie with rubber band. Seed sprouter - if you wish to spend A$20 you can purchase this in Bunnings. How to cook beans sprout? Beans sprouts is very useful, can be added to a lot of Asian cuisine special