My Filipino Recipes
My Filipino Recipes is a collection of Filipino food recipes that will guide you with the basics of pinoy cooking. These pinoy recipes were donated by Filipino folks in Los Angeles, California. Our main objective is to share these recipes not only to fellow Filipinos but to anyone interested in Filipino foods. This web site will give you some innovative ideas of Filipino cooking for family fun and free recipes to enjoy!
The Origin and Influences of Filipino Recipes
Most of these Filipino food recipes are mixture of foreign cuisines. History tells us that traders and conquerors from the past brought with them their unique ways of preparing their own recipes in the Philippines. Pottery and porcelain artifacts excavated in central and southern parts of the Philippines prove that the Arabs, Chinese, Malaysians, Indians, and Indonesians have traded and introduced their own recipes to the Filipino people long before Ferdinand Magellan discovered the Philippines. Some of the recipes produced by these traders are chicken curry, chicken with sotanghon, fish ginatan, crabs with jackfruit, fish crab with miswa, kare-kare, kalabasang may gata, fresh lumpia, and chopsuey. Because of the influence of these foreign cultures that began approximately 400 years ago and through the continuous tradition of pinoy (pinoy is a demonym referring to Filipino people) cooking, Filipino folks came to love these recipes and became part of the Filipino food recipes. When Spain colonized the Philippines for three centuries, the Spaniards introduced recipes like arroz a la valencia, afritada, adobo, asado, fish cocido, fish relleno, embotido, menudo, kaldereta, tinola, paksiw, and putsero. Pinoys love the taste of these delicious delicacies and so it bacame part of the Filipino food recipes. Recipes adapted from Malayan cuisine include dinengdeng, dinuguan, kilawin, papaitan, pinakbet, sinanglay, and sinigang. These are the original and native Filipino recipes.
Pinoy cooking of Authentic Filipino Recipes or Philippine Cuisines
These authentic Filipino recipes are very simple to cook -easy to follow and will guide you with the basics of pinoy cooking. It will then be up to you to modify or develop these recipes as you continue learning how to cook delicious Filipino food. Just try them out to get some quality time with your family on weekends.
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Good luck and happy pinoy cooking!