You seem to like my Dad's pata tim recipe. And in honor of my dad and all dad's out there I'll be sharing a recipe concocted out of pata tim leftovers.
Ingredients:
Leftover pata tim
Shitake mushrooms
Button mushrooms
Bok choy or chinese cabbage
(these look like baby petchay)
oyster sauce
canton noodles
Step 1: shred leftover pata meat and set aside
Step 2: place remaining sauce in a pan and heat under medium fire
Step 3: add water (since there might not be enough sauce) and a little oyster sauce to adjust the taste
Step 4: add mushrooms and noodles
Step 3: turn off heat and add bok choy
Happy Father's day!
I LOVE YOU, PAPA!!!
I might have already mentioned before that whenever we get asked by close family members from the U.S. what we want them to bring home for us when they visit we would shamelessly ask for Costco chicken (and yes, their apple pie too sometimes!). There are only three of us and the chicken is relatively larger than what we can consume per meal leftovers are, therefore, inevitable. Most of the time we save the leftovers for tacos, but here's another recipe that I love to make out of the leftover chicken.
Ingredients:
Leftover chicken
Carrots, roughly cut into large chunks
Potatoes, quartered
Squash, roughly cut into large cuts
Garlic head, halved
Onion, minced
Olive oil
Milk or cream
Salt and pepper
Procedure:
Combine vegetables and garlic. Drizzle olive oil over.
Roast in an oven heated at 350 F for about 30 minutes or until they caramelize.
Shread chicken meat off the bone. Keep the bones to make chicken stock.
In a stock pan, heat olive oil, add onions and cook until transparent.
Add shreaded chicken and roasted vegetables (make sure to remove the skins of the garlic).
Add chicken stock or water.
Add milk or cream. Lower heat and bring to a boil. Remove from heat.
With a handheld mixer (if unavailable you may use a blender) puree mixture until you get the desired consistency (smooth to slightly chunky).
Season with salt and pepper.
You might find it odd (or even funny) that whenever Mama or my youngest sister comes home from the states they always bring along with them 4-5 pieces of Costco chicken. No kidding. When Hubby and I stayed in San Francisco for a few months this used to be what we considered "survival food", meaning our "we-are-too-lazy-to-cook" dish. We cannot consume an entire chicken so we always ended up with leftovers which I use for arroz caldo, macaroni soup, salad, chicken spread, etc.. Here's another dish that I make out of our leftover roasted chicken -- tacos! To make, simply assemble shredded leftover chicken with salsa, sour cream, cheese and fresh cilantro over tortilla flour. How easy is that? How about you...what do you do with leftover chicken?
