Menudo Ala Cubana - Pinoy Dish

Great appetites will appreciate this great dish, full of lively flavor, texture, and color.

Cooking Skills Needed:

How to Saut
How to Cube and Dice
Cooking Tools Needed:
Pan
Wooden Spoon
Chef's Knife
Chopping Board
Measuring Cups
Best paired with

Ingredients
200 grams
100 grams
200 grams
cup
cup
3 pcs (medium ripe)
1 pouch (80 grams)

Ground Pork
Carrot
Potato
Raisins
Green Peas
Saba
Egg
Del Monte
Quick 'n Easy Menudo Sauce

(diced)
(diced)
(cooked/ frozen)
(sliced diagonally and fried)
(fried)

Cooking Procedure:
1. Saut pork until brown. Add carrot, potato and 2 teaspoons patis. Cook for 5 minutes.
2. Add DEL MONTE Menudo Sauce, raisins and teaspoon pepper. Cook for 5 minutes.
Add green peas. Cook for 2 minutes.
3. Serve with saba, rice and eggs if desired.
Makes 5 servings
Lusog Notes: This dish is not only rich in flavor, its rich in iron as well.

Pata Kare-Kare - Pinoy Dish

Kare-kare has never been this easy. Show off your cooking know-how when you serve this at dinner with the
family.

Cooking Skills Needed:

How to Boil and Simmer

How to Slice Vegetables and Fruits

Cooking Tools Needed:

Pan
Pot
Tong
Wooden Spoon
Chef's Knife
Chopping Board
Measuring Cups

Ingredients
1.2 kg
4 cloves
2 tbsp
150 grams
150 grams
100 grams
100 grams
2 packs (50 grams each)

Pork Pata
Garlic
Patis
Talong
Banana Heart
Sitaw
Pechay Tagalog
Del Monte
Quick 'n Easy Kare-Kare Mix

(cut up)
(crushed)
(sliced)
(trimmed and sliced)
(cut into 3 long)

Cooking Procedure:
1. Rub pata with garlic and patis. Boil in enough water for 5 minutes. Drain, discard the broth.
2. Add 3 cups water to the pata and simmer until meat is tender.
3. Retain only 1 cups broth in pan. Add DEL MONTE Kare Kare Mix and vegetables except pechay.
Simmer until vegetables are cooked.
4. Add pechay. Simmer once. Serve with sauted baggong alamang.
Makes 10 servings
Lusog Notes: Kare-kare is high in thiamine, which keeps your brain functioning well.

Caldereta with Cheese Magic Sauce

Beef Caldereta gets an extra boost of cheesy to enliven meal time with your loved ones.

Cooking Skills Needed:

How to Boil and Simmer

How to Slice Vegetables and Fruits

Cooking Tools Needed:

Wooden Spoon
Chef's Knife
Casserole
Chopping Board
Measuring Cups

Best paired with

Ingredients
4 cloves
1 pc (medium)
kg
cup
150 grams
1 pc
1 pc
cup
1 pc (small)
1 pc (small)
1 pouch (200 grams)
cup

Garlic
Onion
Beef Short Ribs
Liver Spread
Potato
Laurel
Siling Labuyo
Green Peas
Red Bell Pepper
Green Bell Pepper
Del Monte
Original Style Tomato Sauce
Del Monte
Cheese Magic Sauce

(crushed)
(sliced)
(cut up)
(cut into chunks)
(sliced)
(cooked or frozen)
(cut into strips)
(cut into strips)

Cooking Procedure:
1. Saut garlic, onion and beef until beef turns light brown. Add liver spread, stir then add 1 to 2 cups
water and simmer until tender.
2. Add DEL MONTE Tomato Sauce, potato, laurel leaf, teaspoon iodized fine salt (or tablespoon
iodized rock salt), teaspoon pepper and siling labuyo. Cook for 10 minutes.

3. Add green peas and bell peppers. Continue simmering until cooked. Add DEL MONTE Cheese
Sauce. Simmer once.
Makes 5 servings
Lusog Notes: Good Source of Niacin promotes normal digestion and healthy skin.

Tuna Paksiw

Cooking Skills Needed:

How to Boil and Simmer

Cooking Tools Needed:

Pan
Knife
Wooden Spoon
Chopping Board

Best paired with

Ingredients
4 slices (300 grams)
4 cloves
1 pc (medium)
1 tbsp
1 pc
1 tsp
tsp
1 pouch (115 grams)
2 tbsp

Tuna Steak
Garlic
White Onion
Ginger Strips
Siling Haba
Cooking Oil
Peppercorn
Del Monte
Pineapple Tidbits
Del Monte
Red Cane Vinegar

(fresh)
(crushed)
(cut into rings)

(drained, reserve syrup)

Cooking Procedure:
1. Arrange fish in pan.
2. Add remaining ingredients. Simmer uncovered for 2 minutes, then cover and simmer for 10 minutes.
Makes 4 servings.
Lusog Notes: Excellent source of Vitamin C- helps fight common infections.

Grilled Pork and Eggplant with Pineapple

Cooking Skills Needed:

Grilling
How to Boil
Slicing
Mixing
Mincing
Cooking Tools Needed:
Spatula
Bowls
Knife
Chopping board
Measuring Spoon
Measuring cup
Grill Pan
Food Tong
Best paired with

Ingredients
300 g
1 tsp
tsp
350 grams
1 3/4 tbsps
1 1/4 cups
1/2 cup
2 stalks

1 pouch (115 grams)

1 tbsp

Pork Liempo
Soy Sauce
Black Pepper
Talong
Garlic
White Onion
Tomatoes
Green Onions
Salt
Black Pepper
Del Monte
Pineapple Tidbits
Del Monte
Red Cane Vinegar

(minced)
(diced)
(diced)
(sliced)
(to taste)
(to taste)

Cooking Procedure:
1. Season pork with soy sauce and pepper. Pan-grill until tender. Cut into strips. Set aside.
2. Grill or pan-grill eggplants for 5 minutes or until just cooked. Peel eggplants. Cut crosswise into 2 inch pieces.
Combine with pork, garlic, onion and tomatoes. Set aside.

3. Combine DEL MONTE Pineapple Tidbits with remaining ingredients. Stir. Add to the pork mixture. Season
with salt and pepper to taste.
Makes 5 servings.
Lusog notes: Good source of Fiber - helps promote healthy digestive system.

Pia Paksiw na Bangus (Pineapple Bangus

Paksiw)

Cooking Skills Needed:

Simmering

Cooking Tools Needed:

Pot
Bowls
Knife
Chopping board
Strainer
Rubber Spatula
Soy Dish
Spoon
Scissors

Best paired with

Ingredients
500 g
2 1/2 tbsps
2 1/2 tbsps
1/2 tsp
1 cup

1/3 cup
1 can (227 grams)

Fresh Bangus
Garlic
Ginger
Peppercorns
Water
Salt
Patis
Del Monte
Red Cane Vinegar
Del Monte
Pineapple Chunks

(cleaned and each piece sliced diagonally into 4 )

(crushed)
(sliced and pounded)

(to taste)
(to taste)

Cooking Procedure:
1. Combine all ingredients except DEL MONTE Pineapple Chunks. Season with salt or patis to taste.
Bring to a boil and simmer for 12 minutes or until fish is tender.
2. Add DEL MONTE Pineapple Chunks with syrup. Simmer for 3 - 5 minutes.
Makes 8 servings.