Dinuguan Dreaming
August 22, 2001 | 12:00am
My husband loves to eat dinuguan, but we haven’t concocted nor found the right recipe that tastes really good. We’re in California and are tired of driving half an hour to Cerritos where the better Filipino restaurants are located. Do you have a recipe for dinuguan that we can try at home? I’ve tried most of the recipes from your columns and they’re good. I’ll be doing the yema balls recipe for my kids this week. – Carlos & Pam, California, USA
Sorry, we can’t e-mail recipes to all members because there are too many requests to fill. We’ll try to add more to our website as soon as possible.
Here’s a recipe for dinuguan that you might want to try. However, you’ll have to go that extra mile to look for pork blood in an Asian food store.
Start by pressure-cooking a kilo of pork cutlets and 1/2 kilo of pork liver in just enough water to cover the meat. Once tender, drain and set aside the broth.
Combine four cups of pork blood and a half-cup of vinegar; set aside.
In a skillet, with 1/3 cup of cooking oil, brown a large, minced garlic and two, medium-sized, roughly chopped onions. Add the pork and liver to brown as well.
Add a half-cup of vinegar and do not stir until the mixture begins to boil. Once boiling, add the reserved pork broth, pork blood-and-vinegar mixture, and a couple of bay leaves. Season with a teaspoon of salt, 1/2 teaspoon each of black pepper and sugar, and two long, green chili peppers. Stir constantly to prevent the food from sticking to the bottom.
You can thicken your dinuguan with a cup of coconut milk, if you like that gata flavor.
Happy Pinoy cooking!
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Polvoron, the dry, powdery delicacy that we often dare our friends to eat as they whistle, is made simply from flour, powdered milk, sugar, and melted butter. Sometimes, crushed peanuts can be added, if you like a nutty flavor.
Two cups of flour must first be toasted until it becomes very light brown in color. Once toasted, combine this with a cup each of powdered milk and sugar. Pour in 1/2 cup of melted butter and shape the powdery batter into individual molds.
Each polvoron is traditionally wrapped in colorful, Japanese tissue paper with the sides cut and frilled.
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