Sea food alla Philippines

I can not recall when was the last time I have posted a recipe… bad Medea. Although I have collected many from all around the world… but what can we do when we live a hectic life.

But today I wish to share with you 3 super fast ones from the Philippines that I am currently visiting.

- Steamed crab

- Fried sea fish

- Butter and garlic prawn

Be aware these dishes are super easy ones, even too simple for me, but in Rome we do like Romans do, so lets not influence our chef in Boracay. If she makes it simple lets keep it simple.

Number of dishes 3 preparation time 30 -40 minutes.

Ingredients:

Take a great philippines cook, in my case she was Mira!

- sea fish 2
- crab 2
- prawn 10
- butter
- garlic
- spring onion
- tomato and cucumber (for decoration)
- rice






Fried Sea Fish

Lets get started! I can not explain to you how Mira (our chef) cleaned the fish,  pilled its"skin" or emptied behind the fish flap or stomach, since by the time I got to her restaurant it was done already. But at least I got a picture about its result :)

So now what?

Well  this was a fast one. We only put salt on it. Nothing else. Than we took the cleaned fish and put it to hot oil. Fried it for 10 minutes (5/5 a side) and we have decorated with cut spring onion, cucumber and tomato. Done. First dish is ready.

Steamed crab

Again a 15 minutes dish.. but my hart broke while I was doing it.

We got the crab form a vendor who was selling them alive tightened with a green leaf. Now I got the job to clean them with a simple kitchen cleaner. oh… that was hart breaking for me. Washing it while he or she looked at me and tried to escape. Same time I knew, I will eat it shortly… and not just eat it but I will put him alive to a pot… and that what came next. After cleaning it we need to put it (alive) to an empty pot without anything (not even water!) and we "steamed it"for 15 minutes in its own sauce. once we added few drop of water… but nothing else. Than here we only cut to half there ready crab, while in other places the waiter cited up to small parts and also removed its mouse…

It was good, super easy but i felt bad while i was yamm yamm eating it…


Butter and garlic prawn

Easy like math in first grade.

You buy the prawn. (fresh preferably) you first clean your hand with lemon so it will not get the smell. Here we only removed its shield, we did not removed its intestines, although a vietnamese friend of mine said we should! All the time… well in the Philippines it was ok like this so we ate like this.

Where was I , ah yes so we cleaned the prawn, than we heated butter and garlic. (no salt) when the garlic started to change color (2 minutes) we put there the prawn. Few minutes and it was done.

We ate it with plain rice, heated up in butter and garlic. (let say, fried for 5 minutes in this sauce).

Papapam lunch is ready, and it was good.