Chicken Cordon Bleu

Ingredients:

• boneless chicken breast
• cheese slices
• thin sliced honey ham
• 1 egg, beaten
• toasted bread crumbs
• salt
• black pepper
• cooking oil
• butter

How to cook chicken cordon bleu:

1. Pound chicken breast to 1/4-inch thickness.
2. Sprinkle each piece on both sides with salt and pepper.
3. Place cheese slice and ham slice on each breast.
4. Roll up each breast using toothpicks to secure if necessary.
5. Dip the rolled chicken breast into the beaten egg.
6. Then roll into the bread crumbs.
7. Place seam side down in greased baking dish.
8. Bake at 350°F for 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and let it cool down for few minutes.
9. Heat cooking oil over low heat in a pan. Fry the chicken cordon until golden brown on both sides.
10. Slice and serve with banana catsup as dipping sauce.

Rellenong Manok (Stuffed Chicken)

Ingredients:

• 1 whole chicken, deboned with shape kept 
• 2 lemon 
• 1/3 cup soy sauce 
• 2 tbsp sugar 

Stuffing:

• chicken meat, minced 
• 1 lb ground pork 
• 1 cup ham, diced 
• 1 can Vienna sausage, drained and sliced 
• 1/4 cup breadcrumbs 
• 1/4 cup pickle relish 
• 4 eggs, 1 egg beaten and 3 eggs boiled 
• 1/2 cup butter 
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce 
• 1 tablespoon sugar 
• Salt and pepper to taste

How to cook rellenong manok:

1. Marinate chicken in lemon juice, soy sauce and sugar.

2. In a bowl, mix all stuffing ingredients well except boiled eggs.

3. Stuff the chicken with the mixed stuffing and the boiled eggs in the center.

4. Sew the cavity opening and truss the chicken.

5. Wrap chicken in aluminium foil.

6. Heat oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit and bake breast-up for an hour or until chicken is cooked.

7. Open the foil and rub chicken with butter and put back in oven until golden brown.

8. Serve with gravy on the side (optional).

Adobong Pusit (Squid Adobo)

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 lb squid (pusit), washed and long thin membrane removed
• 1/3 cup soy sauce
• 1/3 cup vinegar
• small onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic. minced
• black pepper
• cooking oil

How to cook adobong pusit:

1. In a saucepan, heat the oil. Saute onion and garlic until fragrant.
2. Add the squid.
3. Then add the soy sauce and vinegar.
4. Season with black pepper.
5. Simmer for few minutes.
6. Serve hot with steamed rice.