Monday, April 11, 2011

Lenten Food: Guinataang Hipon or Crab

Lenten season is coming and fasting is observed during that days, so to spice things up, we want to still serve some delicious foods without ruining our fasting tradition. So today, I will share with you my readers the other delicacies we could eat this coming Lenten season. 

1st delicacy is guinataang hipon or crab.

Let us first define the words, guinataan and hipon?
guinataan means cooked in coconut milk. While hipon is the tagalog term for shrimp, it is a seafood.

After knowing what is the definition of guinataan and hipon, let us now move on what are the ingredients needed in our guinataang hipon or crab.

The ingredients needed are the following:

  • 1 k. fresh shrimp or live crabs
  • 3 cloves of garlic
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 1 1/2 coco cream of 2 coconuts
  • 1 pc. ginger, size of a thumb and pounded
  • 1 pc. dilao, pounded
  • 1-3 pieces hot pepper (according to taste)
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1/3 c. green onion, cut 1 cm. long

Procedure:

Shell shrimps, devein, place in a saucepan. Add the thin coconut milk, ginger and dilao. Let boil until shrimps turn red. Add coco cream, hot pepper and salt. Just before serving, add green onions.

Just follow the procedure correctly then its good. You can now enjoy some Filipino delicacies.

Happy Cooking. :)

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