Four Diverse Cuisines: Cooked by Yours Truly

Yahooo!, Two days of being inactive but here I am, back in the mood to write and excited to read various inspiring and excellent articles written by amazing authors. If you'll gonna ask me why I wasn't able to publish articles for two days, my weekend just leave me a lot of work.

Naahh! Just forget about that lets run the cooking show already haha.

During our online summer class our professor requires us to make a cooking show video (1 video presentation per day) since we only have 4 weeks. He decided not to conduct virtual classes instead he tasked us to make use of our time to record our own cooking everyday but each week has different cuisines.

Week 1- Filipino Cuisine

Week 2-Chinese Cuisine

Week 3-Korean Cuisine

Week 4- Indian Cuisine

Below are my favorite dishes that I cooked during our summer class; (My apology for the dull presentation I'm bad at garnishing though😅)

1. Filipino Cuisine

The term, "Adobo" derives from a Spanish word "Adobar" which means marinate. It is the most popular Filipino signature dish which consist of some ingredients involving meat, seafood, or vegetables marinated in vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, garlic and onion, bay leaves, and black peppercorns, which is browned in oil, and simmered in the marinade.

Shrimp adobo is a job-well-done dish that I've ever cooked during the first week, because it was my first time also to cook this and it turned out so deliciously good. The shrimp has its own unique flavor that really blends and somehow enhances the flavor to the marinated sauce.

1. CHINESE CUISINE

The origin of spring rolls can be linked back to China. Originally made for Chinese New Year banquets, spring rolls were stacked to look like bars of gold. Spring rolls got their name because the New Year marks the start of spring in the lunar calendar.

Source: https://www.allrecipes.com/article/spring-rolls-vs-summer-rolls/

We Filipinos are very fond of spring rolls/lumpia shanghai. This dish has never gone out of style, it is most often serve during any occasions and became the Filipinos main target lock in food memes that we usually saw in social media. We can't deny the fact also that Chinese has been living in our country for how many years way back then, they influence us with their culture as well their cuisines and we used to cooked it by now such as Pansit, sotanghon, siomai, spring rolls, etc. Just so you know guys I am totally addicted with spring rolls😍.

1. KOREAN CUISINE

This Korean BBQ Chicken, commonly known as chicken bulgogi or dak bulgogi (닭 불고기), is marinated in tender and flavor inducing soy based marinade. Bulgogi means “fire meat” and it is often made with the tender parts of beef, pork or chicken. However, in general terms, unless specified, bulgogi is made with beef.

Source: https://mykoreankitchen.com/chicken-bulgogi-korean-bbq-chicken/

Not only is this delicious, yet this recipe is an easy peasy to make as well. Even better, you could be able to find all the necessary ingredients from the local market. You only need to marinate the chicken for 2 hours or more with, soy sauce, lime juice, sugar, minced garlic, and ground pepper. Now in the pan sauté the white onion until it caramelize then followed by the marinated chicken of course don't forget to include the marinated sauce and simmer it for 5 minutes until the sauce thickens. So easy right? Wanna give it a try? Hehe.

1. INDIAN CUISINE

Indian cuisine was known by it's diverse and unique cooking techniques characterized by its peculiar and subtle used of different spices such garam masala (combination of spices), chili powder, turmeric, cinnamon, cumin, cardamum, etc. Their dishes are commonly has a strong and pungent flavor. Indian food is also heavily influenced by religion, in particular Hinduism and Islam, cultural choices and traditions that is why they widely practice vegetarianism which is part of their culture.

During the fourth week, I experience a lot of trouble because I was out of budget and the ingredients, mostly the spices are difficult to find here in our local market. So the thing I did was to search more easier recipes in the internet and decided to make my own twist and be innovative instead.

Aloo Pakora is a vegan potato snack having a soft melt-in-the-mouth fried potato fritters coated in a delicious, golden, crispy batter. It is also known as potato bajji and has always been one of my favorite tea-time snacks. My sister loves this dish since she is very fond with potatoes she tend to ate the whole bunch of it, leaving me with one piece only lol.

That's it! I hope this piece of mine made your tummies rumble. Have a great rainy day everyone.

Sayonara min'na

Yours truly,

@Athaliah

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