My Mama's Kitchen and Garden

Airfryer Chicken Strips using Great Value Coating Mix Author: Neliza Ly Ingredients: 2 lbs. Chicken breast tenderloin Great Value Extra Crispy Seasoned Coating Mix Instructions: Moist chicken with milk. Shake chicken in a shaker bag with coating mix. Place chicken in the air fryer and spray with vegetable oil. Air fry at 400F for 10 to 12 minutes, flip in between. Check with meat thermometer. Enjoy.

Our favorite afternoon snacks back in Iloilo. The ingredients are very cheap and easy to make.  I like alupi with a lot of young coconut. Instant Pot Ilonggo Alupi or Cassava Suman Author: Neliza Ly Equipment: Instant Pot 6 qt Kitchen Aid food processor Bamboo Steamer cheese cloth Yield: 12 to 14 pcs. depending on the sizes (10 pieces if without coconut) Ingredients: 4 cups (710 grams) cassava, finely shredded and squeezes (3 regular size cassava) - you can also use frozen cassava 6 tbsp. (90 ml) coconut milk 1 ¼ cup (160 grams) brown sugar 24 oz. young coconut, shredded (275 grams or 9.7 oz net after water is drained) (optional-sometimes not available in the store) Banana leaves for wrapping Instructions: Combine cassava, coconut milk, sugar and young coconut. Mix well and set aside. Wash and clean banana leaves. Wilt the leaves using a stove for easy wrapping. You can also use a clothes iron if you like. Place 3 tbsp.  of cassava mixture on the leav...

Instant Pot Butternut Squash with eggs - Filipino Style Author: Neliza Ly Ingredients: 2 tbsp. oil 380 grams butternut squash, slice into small cubes 2 cloves garlic 1 shallot 1 plum tomato 2 XL eggs, beaten and lightly season with salt 1 tbsp. maggi seasoning ¼ cup water Instructions:  Set the Instant pot on Sauté Mode.  When pot is hot, add vegetable oil. Then add garlic, shallot and tomato. Sauté for 2 minutes. Add squash, maggi seasoning and water. Mix and turn off Sauté Mode. Close lid. Set Instant Pot on Manual Mode, High Pressure for 0 minute, QR. Open lid, set the Instant Pot to Sauté mode. Add eggs and mix until eggs is cooked.  Turn off Instant Pot. Enjoy.

I tried different way of cooking shrimp tempura in the Air fryer. I use the wet tempura mix before with panko as a final coating but the coating become very sticky. I also tried double dip with egg and panko. It's good but the coating is too thick. For double dip, I usually cook it for 12 minutes. For single dip I tried 12 minutes but the shrimp is a little bit dry. I also tried 9 minutes which is good, my last trial was 8 minutes at the same temperature. The shrimp is moist and soft and that's the way I like. I keep repeating the same temperature and time and I am satisfied with 8 minutes on single dip. I don't preheat my GoWise air fryer by I preheat my BSOA. This is a thumbs up at home especially for my picky eaters. For Tempura mix and panko breadcrumbs, I use the store brand from Assi Plaza. Air fryer Shrimp Tempura Author: Neliza Ly Things used: Parchment paper Air fryer Ingredients: 1 lb. shrimp, tail on 1 cup panko bread crumbs ½ cup tempura m...

I always make this Chicken for dinner. This is one of my favorite. It is very tasty. I can eat 2 leg quarter with rice. I usually double my recipe when I make this chicken. My husband loves this chicken aside from the other chicken that I make all the time. This is my Instant Pot Version. I also have the Airfryer version . Instant Pot Ga Roti Author: Neliza Ly Ingredients: For marinade: 2 chicken leg quarter 1 tsp five spice 1 tsp. garlic powder 1 tbsp. sugar 3 tbsp. Maggi seasoning or soy sauce ½ tsp salt ¼ tsp pepper 1 tbsp. oil Others: ½ cup coconut water ¼ c Vegetable oil Carrots Tomatoes cucumber Instructions: In a small bowl, combine all the marinade ingredients and mix until well blended. Transfer chicken into a large ziploc bag. Pour the marinade over the chicken and toss to evenly coat the chicken. Marinate for at least 1 hour or overnight in the refrigerator. Set Instant pot to Sauté Mode.  When pot is hot, add vegetable oil then add chicke...

This is my favorite afternoon snacks back in Iloilo since I was a kid. Cassava is a very common root crops in Iloilo. Puto lanson is made of steamed cassava, brown sugar and young coconut. The vendor usually use tin cans as mold then wrap it in a banana leaves before selling. Instant Pot Puto Lanson or Steamed Cassava Author: Neliza Ly Ingredients 4 cups Cassava, grated 8 tbsp. (95 grams) Brown sugar 1/2 cup grated young coconut (optional) Instructions: Squeeze out the juice from grated cassava using a cheese cloth. Combine grated cassava with brown sugar and young coconut. Mix well. Stuff the mixture in a mold with holes at the bottom. I made holes on my silicone molds. Add 1 cup of water into the Instant Pot. Place the bamboo steamer with puto lanson. Set the Instant Pot to Manual Mode, High Pressure for 10 minutes, 10 minutes NPR. Enjoy. Serve with margarine or butter if you like. Notes: I also try using frozen Goya brand Cassava 24 oz. (1.5 lbs). The...

This is one of my favorite food to make since I was a kid. When I was a young, we have a very large fish pond in the Philippines. Everytime we harvest milkfish, we usually send it to the fishing port, ship it to Manila and Cebu and save a lot for us and for our relatives. Rellenong bangus or stuffed milk fish is one of my favorite food to make. It is a lot of work but it is yummy. My mom usually like it with pineapple, chorizo or chinese sausage and slices of hard boiled eggs. I don't add it on mine because it's difficult for me to find chorizo in my area. Pineapple is okay I noticed it easily spoil the food if you keep it for a while. We also rub the skin with flour, coat the head opening with cornstarch and deep fried. The purpose of flour is to prevent splattering of oil and to make the skin crispy. Since I'm doing it on the air fryer, I need to cut the head and portion of the skin because it doesn't fit inside the air fryer basket and I don't rub it with flo...

This is one of my favorite chicken. It taste good and the skin is crispy. I usually make this with chicken thighs and chicken quarter. I tried to convert this to Instant Pot, the Air fryer version retains more flavor. Air fryer Turmeric Chicken Author: Neliza Ly Ingredients: 4 chicken thighs 10 garlic cloves, minced ½ tsp. turmeric powder 1 tsp. coarse sea salt ½ tsp. black pepper, grind 1 tsp. sugar 1 tsp. coriander seeds, crushed 2 tbsp. maggi seasoning 1 tbsp. oyster sauce -- ¾ cup rice flour ¾ cup glutinous rice flour Instructions: Make 2 slits on the chicken meat near the bone area for the flavor to absorb well. In a small bowl, combine all the marinade ingredients and mix until well blended. Transfer chicken into a large ziploc bag. Pour the marinade over the chicken and toss to evenly coat the chicken for richer flavor. Marinate for at least 30 minutes to 2 hours in the refrigerator. Mix rice flour and glutinous rice flour then coat the chicken very w...

This is one of my favorite things to make in the stove before and then I converted it to Instant Pot using a sauté mode only because vegetables cook very quick. I also use the air fryer in order to use less oil. I don't check the time before on how long I cook the food. I only do visual check and taste test. Since I'm posting my recipes, I ended up using a timer on how long to cook the vegetable. Making a food blog is a little bit time consuming because I need to measure things and take step by step pictures. If I'm in a hurry, I only take pictures of the ingredients and the output and then redo the pictures whenever I cook again. Instant Pot Chop Suey or Mixed Vegetables with Air fryer Crispy Noodle Author: Neliza Ly Ingredients: 500 grams shrimp, peeled 20 grams ginger, minced 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 tsp. salt 1 tbsp. vegetable oil 1 tbsp. cornstarch --- 1  tbsp. maggi seasoning or soy sauce 2  ½ tbsp. oyster sauce (I use Lee Kum Kee Panda Brand) 1 t...

My kids doesn't want to eat the squash by itself. At first, I was thinking to make a an Instant pot butternut squash candy like the one I ate in the Philippines when I was a kid but it was a thumbs down before after they saw the mashed squash. They don't want to touch it. I've been thinking to make something for butternut squash for the past few days because my kids doesn't want to eat squash. I was also thinking to use either a brown sugar or white sugar but ended up using a brown sugar as my kids suggested. I decided to make a cake and told them, it's a surprise cake but they can name it whatever they like after they eat it. It's a thumbs up. My kids like it. My youngest one told me it's a cinnamon sweet cake while my oldest one told me it's a mud cake because of it's brown color. So, I'm going to call this recipe, Cinnamon Mud Cake. :) This is my 2nd time making the cake using a bundt pan. I also made a muffin using this recipe.  If y...