Sinigang na Hipon

Sinigang again? Yes, my wife and I both love sinigang. This time it's shrimp version for Filipino's most love dish. Shrimp is abundant in our country but sometimes the price was still high. You can buy medium size shrimp for 400-500 pesos ($8-$10) a kilo. My wife requested for this one because she has a flu that day. Warm sour soup are perfect to replenish his body for faster recovery. Tamarind base soup are perfect for shrimps because it will take having the stench or taste of fish.This dish was also a best seller among restaurants here in Pinas. Most balikbayan's love to munch on this one on the day that they arrive here. I hope you can also enjoy this simple but sumptuous dish.

Ingredients

  1 kilo shrimp

5 long green chilis

2 medium size red onion (quartered)

2 tomatoes (quartered)

1 bunch kangkong

1 sinigang mix (1 liter pack)

750 ml water

salt and pepper to taste

  Instructions  

1. In a large pot, put the water and bring to boil.

2. Add the onions and tomatoes, simmer for 5 minutes.

3. Put the shrimp and simmer until it turns red.

4. Add the kangkong, long green chilis and other vegetables. You may add other vegetables like horse radish, eggplant, string beans.

5. Pour the sinigang mix and stir well. You may add water depending on the level of sourness that you prefer.

6. Sprinkle some salt and pepper to taste.

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Buttered Garlic Shrimp

You want an easy and tasty shrimp recipe? Yes, the dish was so easy and you can't go wrong in preparing this one. If you already read my previous recipe's, it is given that my wife love shrimp dishes. This was prepared during a weekend lunch together with my mother-in-law. Seafood taste better when cooked together with butter.

"Buttered Garlic Shrimp" is a best seller in dampa style restaurants. In dampa style restaurants, you will be the one who will buy fresh seafood's from their mini wet market. You will also choose if what type of dish it will be coo from their menu. Most shrimp dishes in this type of restaurants are sinigang, tempura and camaron rebosado.

This recipe usually comes with lemon-lime flavored soda (sprite), you can use any lemon flavored soda that is available. I hope you can enjoy this dish together with steamed rice.

Ingredients

1 kilo shrimp

  6 cloves garlic (minced)

1/4 cup butter

200 ml lemon-lime flavored soda

2 tsp freshly ground peppercorn

salt to taste

Instructions 

1. In a large pot, put the shrimp and lemon-lime flavored soda. Wait to boil and simmer until soda completely evaporate then set aside.
2. In a large pan, put the butter and saute garlic until golden brown.
3. Add the shrimp and mix until it blended with the sauce.
4. Sprinkle some salt and pepper to taste.

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Shrimp Fettucini Carbonara

"My wife loves to eat shrimp".. Shrimp tempura, buttered-garlic shrimp, drunken shrimp (nilasing na hipon), steamed or raw, name it and she will eat her heart out. Last January 2011 when we dine in a buffet dinner in Boracay the only food that she ate was steamed shrimp. I've prepared this pasta dish last Christmas, this is one of the dish that my wife requested for our Noche Buena.

 Ingredients

1/2 - kilo Fettuccine pasta

250 grams raw Shrimp ( deviened )

1 250 ml All Purpose Cream

1 154 ml Evap Milk

3 cloves garlic ( minced )

1 Onion ( minced)

1 tsp. Olive Oil

1 tablespoon butter

1/2 cup grated cheese

1 tsp. seasoning salt 

1 tsp. fresh ground pepper 

Instructions

1. In a pot (big enough to cook the pasta) of boiling water put a dash of salt and a tsp of cooking oil, cook pasta for about 10-15 minutes.

2. Once the pasta is done, drain and put on a separate pan.

3. In a large non-stick pan heat oil and butter then cook garlic and onion until it's soft.

4. Add and cook shrimp until it turns pink.

5. Put all purpose cream and evap milk, stir until the sauce thickened. You may also add garlic powder for more garlicky flavor.

6. Put the pasta in the sauce mixture and stir.

7. Add salt and pepper to taste.

8. Sprinkle cheese on top of the pasta.

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