Monday, November 7, 2011

The Saucey Mayhem


Street foods will never be the same if the sauce is not present in the portable pushcarts or anywhere in the street as long as there’s food. Name street foods as you can like fish balls, kwek – kwek (boiled egg covered with orange colored flour mixture and deep fried in oil), kikiam, chicken balls. Grilled chicken parts also participates the mayhem like chicken feet, intestines, heads and the chicken itself. The sauce has a very important role, however, this depends on the preparation in order to taste better.

THE VINEGAR ALONE

The vinegar is the primary ingredient of the street food sauces. You can make the vinegar as the street food partner alone. Prepare cloves of garlic, onions, black peppers, red chillis (optional) and salt to add spices besides sourness. Just slice the spices finely and combine into vinegar with a tablespoon of salt and stir. There you have it, it’s all done. The spiced vinegar can accommodate almost all of the street food you know. It can be also used for fried dishes.
Lately, I noticed a kwek – kwek kiosk somewhere in Baclaran. I noticed that the spices where separated in each container. I love it! I can eat cucumber as much as I want knowing that there freshly sliced and vinegar free. The red chillis, onions, salt are separated as well. The kwek – kwek on the other hand is freshly cooked, only it is priced higher than the other stalls but it’s okay. I almost eat the whole servings of the cucumber. LOLS.

THE SWEET BROWN SAUCE

This sauce coordinates well with the grilled street foods. As I mentioned a while ago, it goes well with the grilled chicken part as well with pork intestines and pork skins and everything.

YOU WILL NEED:

3 cups of water
2 cloves of garlic, minced
2 tablespoons of cornstarch or flour (neither one will do)
5 tablespoons of brown sugar
3 tablespoons of vinegar
½ cup of soy sauce
½ teasepoon of ground black pepper
2 tablespoons of liverspread (optional)

PROCEDURE:

1.Dissolve cornstarch or flour in 1 cup of water. Combine vinegar and soy sauce. Stir.
2.In a casserole, put 2 cups of water, sugar, garlic, pepper and liverspread while stirring it occasionally in medium heat. Bring into boil.
3.Put the flour/cornstarch mixture in the casserole and stir it thoroughly. Let cool.

SWEET AND SOUR SAUCE

YOU WILL NEED:

3 cups of water
Red Chillis, sliced
1 teasepoon carrots, mined
2 tablespoon cornstarch
5 tablespoon white sugar
Orange food coloring
1 tablespoon vinegar

The procedure is same with the steps in making the brown sweet sauce.

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