Main Course

Chow mein with beef, mushrooms and broccoli

Beef lo mein with mushrooms and broccoli

Ten minutes to prep and ten minutes to cook, this noodle dish is flavored with garlic, ginger, soy sauce, rice wine, oyster sauce, Chinese black vinegar and Japanese Worcestershire sauce.

Cook time: 10

Servings: 4 people

Creamy ham and veggies pasta

Got leftover ham from the holidays? Get creative and make this exceptionally luscious creamy one-dish meal. Cooks in ten minutes flat.

Cook time: 10

Servings: 4 people

Chicken sinigang

Sinigang, the Filipino vegetable soup with sour broth, has mostly been associated with pork, fish and shrimp. But did you know that chicken sinigang is just as wonderful?

Cook time: 1

Servings: 4 people

A special occasion dish in the Philippines, kare-kare is a stew of meat and vegetables in a peanut-based sauce. Traditionally, beef offal (organ meat) is the meat of choice. A medley of tripe, intestines, tail, face… We like oxtail.

Cook time: 9

Servings: 4 people

Spaghetti and meatballs

An Italian-American dish, spaghetti and meatballs is comfort food for generations. I’ve cooked it so many times but I have to admit that it’s only recently that I found the real secret to the best meatballs for this dish. Lighter and bouncier meatballs. Not overbearingly dense. That’s how I like them.

Cook time: 20

Servings: 4 people

Pork ribs and vegetable soup (nilagang tadyang ng baboy)

Boiled pork ribs, sweet corn, bok choy, potatoes and squash make a chunky soup that, in the Philippines, it is eaten as a main course with rice. Best enjoyed with a mixture of fish sauce and calamansi juice for dipping.

Cook time: 1 30

Servings: 4 people

Spicy beef kaldereta

One of the many tomato-based meat stews that evolved in Filipino cuisine after over three centuries of Spanish colonization, beef kaldereta (from the Spanish caldero or cauldron, the traditional pot for cooking stews) is a popular holiday dish in the Philippines.

Cook time: 2 30

Servings: 4 people

Beef stew a la House of Kimchi

Inspired by the soupy sweet and spicy beef stew served at the food court in a mall named in honor of boxer Muhammad Ali.

Cook time: 7 15

Servings: 6 people