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Sunday, July 23, 2017

Spice up your dinner table with Fresh Options’ Twisted Recipes



Are you looking for ways to spice up your dinner table? Surprise your family with unique, flavorful meals by cooking tried and tested comfort food using unconventional ingredients and flavor combinations.   All you need is a little creativity, an adventurous palate, and fresh and tasty ingredients like Fresh Options meat products to turn ordinary meals into hearty dishes that your family will surely ask you to cook again and again.

Fresh Options, the retail shop of quality meat and meat products manufacturer RDF, has a wide variety of value-added products that can be cooked as great stand-alone meals, or as the key ingredient to sumptuous dishes with a twist.   Fresh Options also carry premium quality meat like dressed chicken, pork and beef, ready-to-heat meals on top of its value-added products.  Its stores located in key cities in Northern Luzon and Metro Manila which is convenient for busy moms and professionals.

To help homemakers and budding home cooks further expand their culinary repertoire, the chefs and food experts from Fresh Options and RDF created several “Twisted Recipes” that will definitely tickle the taste buds.  These “upgraded” recipes include the Adobong Batutay, Bagnet Pinakbet, and Sisig Burger.

So whip out those aprons and get ready to cook these extra special meals with the help of Fresh Options meat and meat products.




Bagnet Pinakbet

Prep time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 40 minutes   Total time: 50 minutes Serves: 4 

Ingredients: 4 pcs round eggplant, cut into half 2 pcs small bitter melon (ampalaya), cut into wedges ½ bundle string beans (sitaw), cut into 2 inches length 1 pc small sweet potato (kamote), cut into cubes 2 thumbs ginger, thinly sliced. 1 pc large tomato, cut into cubes 1 pc large red onion, cut into cubes 350 ml water 125 ml bagoong isda 1 pack Fresh Options Ilocos bagnet 

Cooking Instructions: 
In a large pan, medium fire, place water and let it boil.  When water starts to boil, add bagoong isda. Cover for 2 minutes.  Add vegetables starting with ginger, sweet potatoes, okra, bitter melon, eggplant, string beans, tomato, and onion.  Cover and simmer for 15 minutes.  Add the cooked sliced Fresh Options Ilocos bagnet.  Simmer for 5 minutes. Serve while hot.  


Tapa Salpicao

Prep time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 5 minutes Total time: 15 minutes Serves: 4


Ingredients: 
1 pack Fresh Options beef tapa, sliced into strips (or pork tapa) 3 tablespoons oyster sauce 2 medium sized red onions, finely chopped 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1 carrot, sliced in medium strips 2 cups broccoli, chopped 5 pcs young corn, sliced 1 medium bell pepper, sliced 1 ½ cups of water 2 tablespoons cooking oil 1 teaspoon powdered black pepper

Cooking Instructions: 
Sauté garlic and onion in oil, add Fresh Options tapa and cook for two (2) minutes or until desired tenderness was met, then oyster sauce and water.  Then add the vegetables, salt and pepper.  Let it simmer for 3 minutes and serve!



Adobong Batutay

Prep time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 7 minutes Total time: 17 minutes Serves: 4

Ingredients: 
½ kilo Fresh Options batutay longganisa 2 pcs dried laurel leaves 5 tablespoons soy sauce 3 tablespoons vinegar 3 cloves garlic, crushed 1 to 2 cups of water 2 tablespoons cooking oil 2 teaspoons powdered black pepper camote chips (for garnishing) 
Cooking Instructions: 
Sauté garlic and onion in oil, add Fresh Options batutay longganisa and cook for two (2) minutes, then add soy sauce, vinegar, salt, pepper and laurel leaves then add water.  Let it simmer for 5 minutes, top with camote chips and serve!  


Sisig Burger

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Total time: 20 minutes
Serves: 3


Ingredients:

1 pack Fresh Options Ulam Mismo! Sisig (Pork, Chicken or Chick N'Pork)
2 medium sized onions, finely chopped
10 tablespoons flour
1 tomato, sliced
1 onion, sliced
1 cucumber, sliced
3 eggs
2 potato, sliced into strips
5 tablespoons oil
garlic mayo dip
burger buns

Cooking Instructions:
In a large bowl, mix in the Fresh Options Ulam Mismo! sisig, eggs, onions and flour. Mold the patty into round shape (or preferred shapes) and fry the patty until golden brown. Create your burger and mix in all the vegetables and serve! 



Sinigang na Bagnet

Prep time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 40 minutes Total time: 50 minutes Serves: 4


Ingredients: 
1 tablespoon vegetable oil 1 medium red onion 1 teaspoon rock salt 1 pack Fresh Options Ilocos bagnet, cut into big cubes 4 pcs tomatoes, cut into four 1.3 liters water, more if needed ¼ kg fresh tamarind or 1 pack of sinigang powder mixture ¼ kg string beans, cut into 2 inches length 1 bunch kangkong Leaves 1 pc small radish, sliced 3 pcs green chili 5 pcs okra, cut into half

Cooking Instructions: 
In a medium pot, sauté onion with oil until it becomes translucent.  Season it with rock salt.  Add tomatoes and Fresh Options Ilocos bagnet.  Pour water and fresh tamarind.  Cover and let it boil for 20 minutes or until tamarind softens.  Strain and extract the juice from the tamarind. Add the extracted tamarind juice in the pot.  Continue simmering for another 10 minutes.  Add the string beans, okra, radish and green chili.  Cook until vegetables are tender. Turn off the heat, then add the kangkong leaves.  Serve while hot. 



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