'Rice recipes' archive

Premature chicken eggs for arroz caldo

The chicken arroz caldo recipe in the archive was posted in May, 2003 when this blog was but a month old. I was using a pitiful 1.3 megapixel camera and I didn’t think it was important to photograph the premature chicken eggs that went into the arroz caldo. Well, that was almost five years ago and I have learned a lot of things since then…

Adobo, quail eggs and rice

The first time I cooked this adobo, quail eggs and rice dish, I dropped the shelled hard boiled quail eggs into the adobo sauce and simmered them for a few minutes so that the eggs became light brown in color. I used chopped onion leaves for garnish.

The second time I cooked the same dish, I did not add the quail eggs until I was assembling the dish…

Rice pudding with custard topping

It’s simple enough, really. Cook the glutinous rice in coconut milk with a little salt and brown sugar to taste, transfer to a baking dish, top with the custard and bake until the top is brown in spots. The way it happened, the custard was easier to make than the rice pudding. I don’t remember anymore how many times I had to add coconut milk because there were still uncooked grains after 45 minutes on the stove.

Yellow fried rice

It’s been a while since we last had Chinese-style fried rice. My husband and kids were excited. I had been planning on experimenting with a new recipe for fried rice for days. Hence, I reserved a bowl of pork adobo. If asado fried rice proved good, there was no reason why an adobo-flavored fried rice [...]

Rice, chicken and vegetables dish

This dish is actually a cross between a soup and lugaw (congee). Uncooked rice is added while the chicken cooks. The amount of rice, though, is much less than what is required to make lugaw.
Tomorrow is market day I only had two small chickens left in the freezer, each weighing less than a kilo. Since [...]

Rice topping : sweet and spicy pork spare ribs

A favorite item in most Chinese restaurants’ menu, rice topping simply means a bowl of rice topped with a saucy meat, seafood or vegetable dish. To top my rice, I used pork spare ribs that is a combination of the traditional sweet and sour pork and pork aloha. The pork spare ribs had been pre-cut [...]

Lugaw

Porridge or congee, we Filipinos know it as lugaw–soft-boiled rice cooked in meat broth. Color it with chicken and color it a little with kasubhaand it is called chicken arroz caldo… cook it with beef tripe and it is known as goto… serve it plain with tokwa’t baboy on the side… In a country where [...]

Arroz a la Cubana

I’m re-posting this recipe for two reasons. First, this photo is better than the old one. Second, I wanted to create links to the other saba banana recipes that have accumulated since I first posted this wonderful rice dish called Arroz a la Cubana. I don’t really know if it originated from Cuba but I [...]

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