Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Grilled Chicken Curry

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Cooking and baking is fun, therapeutic and may be a career for you. Food may be a hobby but a venture as well. So turn your passion to something
worthwhile. Always practice something and master it. As we always say that for every challenge you encounter in cooking is fool-proof formula or recipe
or as in life reaps success.

Grilled Chicken Curry is one dish that is interesting to learn. Utililizing fresh curry leaves is  authentic. You may use powdered or curry paste too. 
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I have a great
friend from India back in college that shared me beautiful stories on how spices like curry is obtained. I could still remember her boiled egg curry dish.
Curry is a combination of several sun dired ground spices that is used to make authentic indian dishes just like chicken curry. One thing that we should remember in
 making chicken curry is to use yogurt or any cultured dairy liquid to tenderize the chicken or protein you wish to use such as beef, pork, veal , etc.Meats are given
time to marinate in the curried cultured milk mixture with flavourings and this time is grilled before it is cook until tender in the stew. Fish and seafoods
are delicate  so these are lastly added when your curry stew has reduced, then sea proteins then are perfect to add so it will not overcook and become flaky, dry and tough.

You will need:

1/2 kg or 500g chicken, portioned 

1/4 cup  fresh curry leaves, chopped

2 Tablespoons fresh curry leaves, chopped to add last when simmering the stew
juice from 1 lime fruit
salt to taste
black pepper to taste
sugar to taste
1/2 cup onions, chopped
1 1/2 Tablespoon garlic, minced
1/2 cup cultured dairy ( plain yogurt, buttermilk, plain yogurt drink)
1 Tablespoon vegetable oil
Grill -greased with very little vegetable oil

Chicken is washed thoroughly with water, drained and pat dry with paper towel. Massage seasonings like salt, pepper, lime juice, onions, garlic,curry leaves and buttermilk ( used in this video).
Marinate for and hour, covered and placed in the fridge ( raw food should be placed in the bottom of the refrigerator to avoid contamination of Salmonella bacteria).

 Heat up your grill, brush with a little oil. 

Grill marinated chicken skin side down and just develop very light grill mark. Charring the chicken gives the dish a smokey finish. 



After so that you have grilled all proteins,  heat up a pot with very little oil, add in grilled  chicken. Cover and let it simmer until flavors are rendered from it, it then becomes soupy and simmer further until soup is reduced and becomes a stew and finally chicken should be for tender. You may add bell peppers,cubed potatoes and carrots and serve over steamed rice. This dish is lighter than the usual  deep mustard yellow colored dish since it uses fresh curry leaves.Happy eating!Learn something new everyday and then practiceover and over until you master a recipe.


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Monday, May 23, 2016

Vegetable Pancake "Ukoy" (Filipino Dish)


Vegetable Pancake  "Ukoy" ( in Filipino Cooking)with Sweet Vinegar Dip
Making savory pancakes made from whatever vegetables you may have available is fun making. Testing for this recipe gives  you a good practice on your knife knife skills like cutting,  grating,shredding , mincing vegetables. This is served with a simple vinegar dip and is versatile with any starch dish like steamed rice, noodle and can be consumed on its own like nuggets or hush puppies ( a savaory batter made with potato and meat with binder).  I am a filipino and I must say, asian ofcourse has great impact on my cooking. Simple and lite.   So if you wish to learn , or just practice or learn something, please check out Baking and Patry Art Academy’s  blog and video site.  We offer monthly courses and also one-on-one tutorials on any recipe you wish to practice and master.

You will need:
5 cups of grated squash
1 ½ cups sliced turnips
3 Tablespoons chopped onion
2 Tablespoons minced garlic
½ cup eggwhites
½ cup sliced string beans, blacnhed and shocked
½ cup roughly julienned carrots, blacnhed and shocked
½ cup sliced tomato
3 Tablespoons chipped celery leaves and stalks
1 Tablespoon each of red and green bell pepper sliced
¼ cup cubed Chayote
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
1 cup potato starch
2 Tablespoons vegetable oil

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Methods like blanching and shocking are most common steps but essential to cooking vegetables to retain it’s nutrients, texture and appearance.  Blanching is having a boiling water in a pot seasoned with a little salt , blanch your vegetables (those that requires cooking like string beans, carrots sometimes) being very careful to blanching each kind separately, as to each vegetable have several cooking doneness.  The vegetable then after blanching is “shocked” in a bowl of ice water, fished out with a sieve or strainer, or a chinoise depending on how much you are making. By doing this, you retain the juice, appearance, taste and texture of the vegetable. Carrots in the recipe is the next vegetable that wash lightly blanched and shocked.

In separate bowl, combine eggwhite, potato starch, season with salt, pepper and sugar. Add more potato starch if you feel your mixture is runny and vice versa, if it needs hydration add more liquid. Toss together all including onions and garlic plus cooked and uncooked vegetables.

Heat up your pan, preferably a glazed pan ( Teflon type) to make life easier. Add vegetable oil just to lightly coat the pan. Measure 1 or 2 cups of the vegetable mixture and flatten on the pan. Cook each side for about 1 – 21/2 minutes until light golden brown or even lighter if you wish. Flip or turn your pancake and cook the other side. You may flip to the other side if you wish to toast it a little more. Serve while warm with sweet vinegar Dip. Bon Apetite!

Sweet Vinegar Dip
1 ½ cups white vinegar
½ cup white sugar
1 teaspoon Salt
White pepper
Combine all in a small pot. Reduce to half until sugar dissolves and vinegar is cooked thoroughly without stirring. Cool completely. Serve with vegetable pancakes.


If you wish to learn , or just practice or learn something, please check out Baking and Patry Art Academy’s  blog and video site.  We offer monthly courses and also one-on-one tutorials on any recipe you wish to practice and master.

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Thursday, May 12, 2016

Ube Cream Cheese Haleya and Yema Tart



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Instructional Photos posted below
For a  video on Filipino Dessert Fusion, learn and discover baking on a  playful mood, our version of Ube Haleya ( Purple Yam Pudding) and Yema ( Filipino Dulce de leche) both combined in a tart genre. Yema in this recipe is lighter though because “Dayap” ( Philippine Lime) was the liquid used to make the paste.


2 cups gata (Kakang Gata or first press)
Cook until coconut oil is extracted and you obtain the coconut residue or caramael of the cream. Set aside.  This also gives strong flavor and adds a very Filipino asian dessert taste. Coconut brown residue shall then be set aside and used to finish such desserts. Just being careful when cooking this since it splatters when you stir the cream to avoid it from burning.You want a very light golden brown color to maintain that nutty flavor.

Tart Shell Recipe






2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup confectioners' sugar
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, chilled and cut into pieces
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs


Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In the mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, butter, and salt; process until mixture resembles coarse meal, 15 to 20 seconds. Add eggs and process until dough just comes together.
Press dough  on a plastic sheet and  wrap, and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Dust table with dusting flour, wih a rolling pin, sheet out disc of dough  turning 45 degrees clockwise to make sure it does not stick to the table. Dusting dough on top as needed or if it is sticky. Grease well your tart tins and cut according to size.Prick, refrigerate for 3o minutes, line top with baking paper, use any edible beans or rice to bake shell until light golden brown. Cool completey. Fill with cooled filling as well. After assembling, chill dessert before slicing.

Dayap or Philippine Lime althugh 3 fruits were shown in the  

Dayap Paste ( To make both Ube and Yema flavors)
Please use single quantity  per flavor
1/2 cup sugar
Juice and zest from 1 whole Dayap Fruit
2 egg yolks
1/2 cup butter
pinch of salt

For  Ube Paste: use above Dayap paste and add :
1 full quantity of Latik (Watch this how to make it:)
1-3 Tablespoons of Ube extract  for commercial version or add 1-2 cps of Ube Haleya 
1/4 cup cream cheese





For Yema Paste: Use Dayap Paste as it is. 


Combine all ingredients except  the yolks in a pot. Bring to a boil. Whisk yolks in a separate bowl. Temper or whisk in hot mixture to it. Bring back to a boil whisking again vigorously until thick and glossy. Off the flame, Cover immediately with plastic sheet and cool completely before spread on the cooled prebaked tart shell.

Spread on cooled assembled Ube and Yema Tarts
3 cups of Chilled Whipped Cream.




Coconut Jam Gelee ( Tart Glaze)
2 Cups coconut Jam
pinch salt
Dissolve 3 Tablespoons of unflavored powdered gelatin in 1/4 cup cold water. Combine with jam on a double boiler and mix well. Cool completely to thicken on ice water. Pour over Cooled Dessert.

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