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Vegetables are plants or parts of plants used as food. As parts of plants, they include roots,
tubers, bulbs, stems, shoots, leaves, fruits, and flowers.
They can be served raw or cooked. They are prepared and served as entrees, as salads, and as main
dishes. Fruits, on the other hand, are fleshy, juicy products of seed-containing plants. They are
predominantly sweet. When ripe, they can be eaten fresh.
The culinary way of distinguishing fruits and vegetables is their primary use or role in our diet.
Vegetables are used as viands, while fruits are used as desserts.
1. Roots- These are underground parts of plants which include sweet potato, cassava, carrot,
radish, turnip, sugar beets, yam bean or singkamas, and violet yam or ube.
2. Tubers-These are short, thickened fleshy parts of an underground stem, such as Irish potatoes and
Jerusalem artichokes.
3. Seeds- These are parts from which a new plant will grow, which include legumes or beans
like monggo bean, broad beans. garbanzos or chickpeas, papaya or cow peas, soybeans, white beans,
lima beans, and kidney beans.
4. Bulbs-These are underground buds and are made of very short stems covered with layers like garlic,
onions, chives, leeks, and shallots.
5. Leaves- These include the onion family like spring onion, leeks, scallion, and a wide variety. of leaves
like sili leaves, ampalaya, alugbati, spinach, kangkong or swamp cabbage, kintsay or
Filipino celery, celery, lettuce or letsugas, mustasa or mustara, petsay or Chinese cabbage.
Procedure
1.Pan fry mushrooms in hot oil for a minute.
2. Add chicken stock and cook over high heat for 4 minutes.
3. Add the cream,seasonings, parsley, and cornstarch dispersed in water. Cook for another minute.
Chopsuey
ingredients:
2 tbsp. oil
1 cup coarsely chopped onion
2 Cups bean sprouts
1
Cup camote sliced thinly
2
1 cups coarsely chopped celery
2 Cup bamboo shoots
1 cup mushroom, sliced
3 tbsps. cornstarch
1 cup gluten, cut into pieces
1
cup water
2
salt to taste
soy sauce to taste
1
tsp. paprika
4
2 tbsps. chopped parsley
2 cups hot water
1
Cup toasted cashew or peanuts cups
4
6 Chinese fried noodles
Procedure
1. Sauté onion, celery, mushroom, and gluten in oil; add next 6 ingredients and simmer for about 15
minutes. Add cornstarch with cup water, add soy sauce, and stir into hot mixture to thicken.
2.Simmer for 10 minutes. Serve over Chinese fried noodles. Garnish with cashew and parsley.
Ingredients:
1
1 tbsps. peanut oil
2
1 chopped small onion
1 tbsp. bean sprout
1 tbsp. cooked chicken
1 tbsp. boiled ham
1 tbsp. shelled cooked prawn
1t bsp. canned bamboo shoots
½ unopened cultivated white mushroom
1 tbsp. cooked peas
pinch of salt
pinch of sugar and MSG
½ tsp. ginger sherry
½ tsp. sesame oil
few drops of soy sauce
1 tbsp. chicken stock
1 egg
Sauce:
½ cup chicken stock
½ tsp. corn flour
1 tbsp. tomato sauce
1 tbsp. water, pinch of salt, and MSG
All thinly sliced
Procedure:
1. Sauté onion in hot oil. Add bean sprouts and stir for 15 seconds. Add all remaining ingredients except
the egg.(Toss ingredients as you cook for 1-2 minutes, tossing allows the ingredients to cook in
steam.)
2. Shape into a mound on a serving dish. Heat ½ tablespoon oil in pan.
3. Pour the beaten egg on the pan. Spread it out thinly all over the pan like a thin pancake
Place egg on top of the mound.
Procedure:
1. Place celery and cabbage in saucepan with 1 cup of water. Boil for 30 seconds, then drain.
2. Heat oil in skillet or wok and stir fry meat and garlic.
3. Add vegetables; toss and stir-try for several
minutes.
4. Add seasonings. Chill for several hours. Drain excess liquid.
5. Place 2 tablespoons filling in the center of each skin and fold up envelope style, tucking edges in and
sealing last flap with a paste made of 1 tablespoon flour and 2 tablespoons water.
6. Heat oil to 375 0 F and deep-fry 2 or 3 pieces at a time. When bottom is brown and crisp, turn and
continue cooking.
7. Drain on paper towels. Reheat in 400 0 F oven for 10 minutes or until crisp. These can be frozen after
being cooked and cooled.
Noodle Paste:
½ cup flour
1 tsp. melted fat/lard
1 small egg
Filling
½ Cup ground pork
1 tsp. chopped water chestnuts
pinch of salt, sugar, pepper, MSG
½ tsp.ginger sherry
1 tsp. beaten egg
1 tsp. all-purpose flour
4 small hard boiled eggs, shelled
Procedure:
Noodle Paste:
1. Sift the flour and sugar in a bowl. Make a well at the center and add the melted fat and egg. Mix well
and form a dough. Knead until smooth.
2. Cover in a bowl and set aside for 15 minutes. Divide into 4 pieces. Form each piece into a ball.
Filling:
In a bowl, mix all ingredients except hard-boiled eggs. Divide mixture into 4. Cover each hard-boiled
egg with each meat mixture. Spread out one ball of noodle paste with the heel of the hand about 4-6
inches depending on the size of the egg.
Place the meat-coated egg at the center of the noodle paste then gather the surrounding
paste up and over. Pinch the edges together to seal.Place each dumpling on a small square of paper
Arrange in a steamer and steam for 20 minutes.
Baked Potatoes
Ingrediets:
Procedure:
1. Clean, pare and cut potatoes into pieces. Boil in water sprinkled with a teaspoon of salt.
Cook until tender.
2. Drain and mash in a carajay or open saucepan.
3. Add butter and cook over low heat, stirring constantly until dry. Set aside and cool
4. Beat in egg yolks, pepper, and salt to taste. Add cheese and mix well. Chill until mixture
can hold its shape.
5. Shape with hands into 4-inches sausage-shaped rolls. Coat each roll with flour. Dip in beaten eggs
mixed with ¼ cup water.Then roll in bread crumbs. Deep fry until golden brown. Drain on paper
towels. Arrange in a serving dish and garnish with parsley.
Procedure:
1. Beat eggs sprinkled with salt, pepper, and MSG.
2. Heat one teaspoon of oil in a frying pan. Add shrimps, pinch of salt, pepper, MSG, sugar
sherry, and sesame oil
3. Stir fry for one minute. Then add beaten egg. Place on serving dish. Sprinkle with chopped spring
green onion.
Chinese Omelette
Ingredients:
1 onion
3 0Z. chopped ham (optional)
1 9 ½ can bean sprouts
1-2 tbsps. cooking oil
6 eggs
a few drops soy sauce
salt and pepper
chopped parsley
Procedure:
1. Peel and finely chop the onion and add to chopped ham (optional) along with well-drained bean
sprouts.
2. Heat oil in frying pan. Fry onion, ham, and bean sprout for 2 minutes.
3. Beat lightly eggs, soy sauce, and seasoning together, and then pour into pan.
4. Stir mixture in the base of pan with a fork so that the uncooked egg flows underneath and cook until
omelette is set.
Scrambled Egg
Ingredients:
2 eggs
2 tbsps. Milk or cream
¼ tsp. salt
½ tbsp. butter
Dash pepper
Procedure:
1. Mix in a bowl eggs, milk, salt and pepper.
2. Beat gently until well blended. Heat butter in a skillet. Pour egg mixture. As mixture begins
to set, lift mixture gently with a turner and spatula, allowing uncooked mixture to flow into the
bottom of skillet.
3. Cooked until eggs are well formed, moist and tender.
5. Poultry Parts - these are parts of the chicken that are packed, sold, and frozen or fresh. It includes neck,
breast, legs, thighs, and wings.
6. Frozen - whole or chicken parts that are packed and frozen; usually found in the frozen section of the
supermarket.
7. Ready-to-Cook - this can be sold whole, split in halves, quartered without backbone, boned chicken
breast, boned half-breasts, chicken ham, and tocino.
8. Precooked- these include breaded chicken nuggets, breaded chicken fillet, chicken roll chicken kiev,
and chicken relleno.
Seafood refers to aquatic animals used as food. They include the marine animals from the sea and those
found in other bodies of water.
Fish are obtained from two sources of bodies of water. These fish include:
1. Marine fish - These are fish obtained from salt water, mainly the sea.
2. Inland fish - These fish are caught in lakes, rivers, ponds, and other inland bodies of wate.r
3. Aquaculture - This is the cultivating of some marine fish in man-made fish pens such as that of the fish
pens in Laguna Lake. Bangus, or milkfish, is cultured in fish pens.
4. Mariculture -This is culturing fish in bodies of salt water such as those in coves and shores. Examples
of these are tahong (mussel) and talaba (oyster). This type of culturing has not yet been popularly
adapted.
APPENDIX B.
B.1 MATCHING TYPE
Match column A with column B. Write the letter of the correct answer.
A B
______1. Alimentary pastes a. effects of moist heat on starch where it hydrates,
swells, and thickens as paste
______2. Acid b. pre-cooked dried noodles of different flour
______3. Sotanghon c. delays gelatinization
______4. Instant noodles d. made from mung bean
______5. Local noodles e. carbohydrate stored as granules in leucoplast of plant
cells
______6. Gelatinization f. starch products from rice, soybean, cassava
______7. Starch g. family of macaroni products
______8. Vegetables h. primary role of fruits in the diet
______9. Fruits i. primary role of vegetables in the diet
______10. Viand j. parts of plants used as food
______11. Dessert k. fleshy, juicy products of plants
______12. In-season l. time of abundant harvest of fruits/vegetables plants
that are seed-containing
______13. Eggs m. testing egg freshness against light
______14. Protein n. major nutrient derived from egg
______15. Candling o. poultry products of chicken, ducks, and quail
______16. Clarifying p. use of egg in custards or leche flan pudding
______17. Thickening q. use of egg white in wine
______18. Cornstarch r. twice the thickening power of wheat flour
______19. Gelation s. separation of liquid from the solidified mass of starch
______20. “weeping” or syneresis t. setting of sol (gelatinized starching paste) into a
solidified mass
B.2 POST-ASSESSMENT
Let’s find out how much you already know about the lessons in this module. Using your assessment
notebook write the letter of your answer.
B.3 POST-ASSESSMENT
Let’s find out how much you already know about the lessons in this module. Using your
assessment notebook write the letter of your answer. (Write your answer on your activity notebook)
a. True b. False
_______5. Grade B and C birds are usually used in processed products.
a. True b. False
_______6. Which chicken pieces are very meaty?
B.4 POST-ASSESSMENT
Let’s find out how much you already know about the lessons in this module. Using your
assessment notebook write the letter of your answer. (Write your answer on your activity notebook)
______1. Which type of fish is eaten more than any other worldwide?
a. Tuna b. Herring c. Cod
________2. Seafood consumption can cut down on which health issue?
a. Respiratory Problems b. Cardiovascular disease c. Liver degeneration
________3. This type contains had shells outside of their soft tissue.
a. Shiny and tight skin b. Form body c. bluish color d. Bright red gills
________5. These are sticks that are cut further into small squares
a. True b. false
________9. This is the fleshy part of the fish.