Frog cooking contests (ulam and lutong tugak)
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Frog cooking contests (ulam and lutong tugak)
Pictures of some of the HRM teams. I was impressed by the professionalism of those students. I have no doubt that they will become famous chefs.
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Panel of judges.
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Frog cooking contests (Ulam and lutong tugak contests)
Finally the two last days were devoted to frog cuisine in the ulam & lutong tugak competitions. The competition was open to all Fernandinos who got a unique and exotic frog recipe may it be soup, appetizer, beverage, main dish or dessert.
During this festival, HRM students battle it out in preparing new frog recipes in hotel worthy presentations; while ordinary citizens come up with the best tasting traditional dishes.
The most popular traditional dish is indisputably betute (which is Kapampangan for tadpole) or deep-fried frog stuffed with minced pork or frog meat.
Some of the dishes I saw ( and tasted !!!) were frog pizza, frog empanada, putugak pao, frog & dips, bilug-bilug tugak, crispy frog legs in a sweet potato salad, frog spring roll, putchero, potato frog croquettes, kaldereta, kare-kare, roast frog, menudo, frog teriyaki, biringi, chopsuey, etc.
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Kare-kare is a Philippine stew. It is made from peanut sauce with a variety of vegetables, stewed oxtail, beef, and occasionally offal or tripe. Meat variants may include goat meat or (rarely) chicken. This time frog meat was used. It is often eaten with bagoong (shrimp paste), sometimes spiced with chili, and sprinkled with calamansi lime juice.
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Chop suey (Chinese 'mixed pieces') is an American-Chinese dish consisting of meats (often chicken, beef, shrimp or pork), cooked quickly with vegetables such as bean sprouts, cabbage, and celery and bound in a starch-thickened sauce. It is typically served with rice. Here the main meat consisted of frog meat.
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Kaldareta is a goat stew with potatoes, tomatoes, onions, garlic and peas. The goat meat was replaced by frog meat.
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Menudo is a pork liver stew. Frog meat was added.
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Puchero is chicken and vegetable stew. Frog meat was used.
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Teriyaki is a cooking technique used in Japanese cuisine in which foods are broiled or grilled in a sweet soy sauce marinade. In this case frogs were used.
