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Filipino Tortang Giniling dish is a simple Filipino dish which is typically served during breakfast or lunch. The Dish as described below is the traditional way to cook it. You can however add other ingrediënts like vegetables. Your children won’t have a clue!

The main ingrediënts needed for the Filipino Tortang Giniling Dish are:

• Three cloves garlic, pounded finely
• One large red onion, minced finely
• 450 grams ground pork
• One big potato, skinned and chopped  in cubes
• One tablespoon black pepper (ground)
• Two tablespoons of soy sauce
• Salt
• six pieces of egg (beaten)
• Oil for cooking

Procedure to prepare Filipino Tortang Giniling Dish:

Start to saute the  garlic until it is medium brown. Add the minced onions and potatoes. Add the ground pork after the potatoes are half cooked. You may add some salt and pepper to taste and wait until the pink of the meat if gone and the ground pork is tender. Put the mixture aside and let it cool down. Then add the the beaten eggs to the ground pork mixture and mix all ingredients together. Pour the mixture into a pan and fry it until the color of the egg is golden brown on both sides.  Serve warm with a sauce like ketchup.

Filipino Tortang Dulong or fried (silver) fish omelet is a traditional Filipino dish which is simple to make. Unlike other omelet dishes the Filipino Tortang Dulong uses dried fish as main ingrediënt.

The main ingrediënt needed for this dish are: 

• Flour
• 5 cloves of Garlic
• One Onion
• Cooking Oil
• Pepper
• Salt
• 1lb Dulong (small fried fish “biya”)
• Magic sarap
• 4 eggs

Procedure to prepare Filipino Tortang Dulong:

First you need to mix the four eggs with a tablespoon of salt, some pepper and a bit of the Magic Sarap untill it’s well incorporated. Next you add the fried fish, chopped garlic and chopped onions into the mixture and mix it as well. When all is well incorporated you put the cooking oil into a frying pan until it heats up. Take a cup of the the mixture and pour it gently into the frying pan. Cook the mixture until it gets a golden brown color (about 4 minutes) en flip it to the other side till it’s golden brown as well. Place the Filipino Tortang Dulong on a plate and serve warm.

Tapsilog is a combination of three tagalog words: Tapa which are fried beef strips, sinangag which is fried rice and itlog which means egg. Tapsilog is usually served for breakfast and can be found even in famous fastfood chains in the Philippines.