Amansinaya Cookbook

Upo
Ingredients:
• 2 big Upo/ cucumber
• 4 big tomatoes
• 1/2 l vegetable stock
• vinegar
• salt & pepper
• pinch of sugar
• cornstarch
For us it would be fried cucumbers for Philippinos it
is Upo, normally eaten with glass noodles, but not really
my favourite. So I mixed that Philippino vegetable
with a recipe with my grandmother's again and it turns
out pretty well.
Preparation
Peel the Upo or cucumber , take out the seeds and
cut into pieces 2-3 cm cubes. Fry the upo in oil. Add
tomatoes cut in pieces and add vegetable stock, salt
and pepper and let boil. Mix cornstarch with 4 spoons
of water. Let everything boil until it thickens and add
some vinegar and sugar for the sweet and sour taste.
Best served with potatoes. Enjoy!
Groundpork Cabbage
Ingredients:
• 1/2 lbs. cabbage
chopped
• 1kg ground pork
• 1/4 kg sliced
tomatoes
• 1 sliced
medium onion
• 1 teaspoon
minced garlic
• 2 tablespoons
cooking oil
• salt & pepper
Main Dishes with Pork
delicous dishes all around pork
Preparation
Heat the oil in a pan. Once the oil is hot, sauté the garlic
and onion. Add the diced tomatoes. Stir and cook
until the liquid evaporates. Add the ground pork.
Cook for 8 to 12 minutes, then add the cabbage. Stir
and cook for further 5 minutes. Season it with salt and
pepper for extra taste.
Stuffed Bellpeppers
Ingredients:
• 1/2 kg ground pork
or mix of ground
pork and beef
• 1/2 cup cooked rice
• 1 cup water
• 6 bell peppers
• 2 cups tomato sauce
• garlic
• onion
• salt & pepper
• mint
• egg
Preparation
Glaze the onions in a frying pan with some oil, add the
groudpork. In a bowl, mix the pork chop with cooked
rice, egg, mint , salt, and pepper. Remove and discard
the tops, seeds, and membranes of the bell peppers.
Fill each hollow peppers with the equal amount of
mixture with a spoon. Aarrange them in a cooking pot
with the hollowed sides facing upward. (Slice the bottoms
of the peppers if necessary so that they will stand
upright.) Mix the remaining tomato sauce and Italian
seasoning in a bowl and pour over the stuffed peppers
and boil 10 minutes. Best served with rice.
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