My Mama's Kitchen and Garden

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...

Instant Pot Egg Drop Soup with Miswa (Chinese Vermicelli) and Shrimp Balls Author: Neliza Ly Ingredients: 32 oz. (4 cups) Chicken broth 1 tsp chicken flavored soup base or other brand (I use Quoc Viet brand) - optional ½ tsp. garlic powder ¼ tsp. turmeric powder 50 grams Miswa (Chinese Vermicelli) noodle  1 ½ tbsp. cornstarch + 1½ tbsp. water 3 XL eggs 20 grams scallion or green onions, chopped Shrimp balls (homemade done in IP) - optional Garnish: Extra green onions for garnish Salt and pepper Soy sauce Instructions: Place the chicken broth, chicken soup base, garlic powder and turmeric powder into the Instant Pot. Set the Instant Pot in a sauté mode, Adjust “More” setting. Let the broth boil. Add Miswa (Chinese Vermicelli) and cornstarch mixture. Cook and stir for 1 minute then turn off the Instant Pot. Whisk Eggs and pour into the soup and stir. Add green onions and sliced shrimp balls and mix well. Enjoy. Serve with soy sauce, salt and pepper an...