So let's make another recipe,
a classic one using chicken. "Why is it always
chicken, chef?" It's because meat is very
pricey nowadays, right? The meat is better since
it's getting more pricey so us, we should
also show our love through creating dishes
that are very delicious but is affordable and
very quick to make. So this is Chicken
with Pineapples. I'm sure that every household has
their own version of preparing this. So today, I'll be sharing to
you our way of cooking this. So first, heat
your casserole and my mother's
secret to a delicious chicken with pineapples
is using good butter. So I'm going to put
2 tbsp. of good butter. There's no oil,
just all butter. Okay. So 2 tbsp, I will make
it to 3 tbsp of butter. Oh my! My fire seems
to be very strong. So there, it's just okay so that
it would be like a concert and then you
put red onions. You sauté your
red onions and garlic. A little bit of salt to bring
out the flavor of your sauté. Okay. And then into this, let's add
1 kl of chicken breast fillet that I've cut
into cubes. "Can I just use the
whole chicken, chef?" Yes. If it's whole chicken,
make it as 1.5 to 2 kls. If it's fillet then
1 kl is just fine. So spoon
it first or you sauté your meat first
together with your Soffritto. Onions, garlic
and the butter. It smells
so good. You know traditionally, you
can also use margarine here. There's no problem if you
are gonna use margarine. It will give it a
nice color as well but for me, I really like
the taste of the butter The tastiness of butter
is just very different. Okay, I'm spooning it. I'm going to season
it with soy sauce and black pepper. "Why is he putting
a lot of soy sauce?" So that even just in the beginning, what
you're cooking is already delicious. Okay. It's better if it's already nice
in the beginning, right? Not that, you're just going
to rush it at the end. I stuttered. Not that, you're just
gonna recover at the end. You must already show the
nice things on the beginning. There it is, right? That's where you can see
the durability of relationship. "He's saying a lot of word even he's
just cooking chicken with pineapples." "A lot of different
topics already" Okay anyway, when you spoon it
already, you put evaporated milk and your pineapples. So I'm
putting 1 can, this is 850 grams. There's a bit of juices so
that the flavor is there. "Chef, I'm from Tagaytay, from Cavite,
there's a lot of pineapples there." "Can we use the real
pineapples instead?" Oh sure, no problem.
You may really can. "But how would it be since I'm
not really fond of pineapples?" Oh my! That question
seems to be very hard since this is Chicken
with Pineapples. But okay, because you may not
continue watching the video because your feeling
that you don't like to eat pineapples but the
recipe has pineapples. You can remove that and then, you
just replace it with other vegetables such as green peas, add the
bell pepper, you put carrots, you put pickles and that
will be like a Chicken Pastel. Okay. It would already
be Chicken Pastel. So what I'm going to do here
is, I'm going to simmer it. Okay? You don't need
to cover it. You may put the
lid but just ajar. Just right that it's
evaporating a bit. Just like that and then
you simmer it for around five minutes or until your
chicken is almost cooked. So after around five minutes,
it's already like this. It's just quick to cook
because it's breast fillet. Look. Don't mix too much since
it may get crushed and the reason why we put the
chicken just at the beginning, Sorry! The pineapples with the
chicken just at the beginning is for the pineapples
to really become tasty on the sauce and on
the meat of the chicken. Now you can put,
this is pickles - relish. It would add
more flavor. Sugar, this is
1-2 tablespoons. If you don't like it too sweet,
you put just 1 tablespoon. I like it a bit sweet
and then this is slurry, You have cornstarch here that I'll just melt
together with the juice of pineapple chunks. If you use fresh pineapples, you
melt it on a bit water or on a bit milk so that the sauce would
just be gooey a bit. You put it there and then
you just bring it to a boil. Oh look. And then you can put a
splash of vinegar, just a bit. Bring it to a boil. Don't mix it when you
put the vinegar already so that your vinegar
wouldn't taste raw. So since it's boiling
now and you can smell. The flavors are really
incorporating already. You can do your final seasoning
so I'm putting some black pepper. Put it bell pepper for color and you
can also put some mushrooms. Okay, look at that. And then of course,
you must taste it again. Perfect. I would turn the fire
off, this is perfect and then a secret, I would
not write in the recipe. Put it a bit butter. Mount it with even about
1 tablespoon of good butter so you will get the
fresh butter flavor. That's it, your Chicken
with Pineapples. Now, let's try. Get some rice. Look. So there, the butter
is just melting now. Look how tasty
it looks like. I will put it bell pepper for it
to be colorful, now let's try. The sauce, you just want it
like this, not that too gooey. Not that too
thin also, right? So you may also put that
water chestnut, potatoes. You may also put
carrots, you may put but here in our household,
we just put it like this one when we cook
Chicken with Pineapples. Thee chicken is very tender because
we cook it with the pineapples. Pineapples are high in acid
so it tenderizes meat and it really reduce the
feeling of being fed up. Even we put a lot of butter, even
we put a lot of evaporated milk, it's richness is
well-balanced. So make your Chicken
with Pineapples already so that the sweetness would also
be well-balanced on your homes. I'll see you soon and
take care always :)
