Modified Pancit

Yeah... it's new year, and for this we aspire for long life. And the food associated with long life in Asian culture are noodles. So for this holiday I cooked pancit which I believed from my Filipino culture will prolong someone's life.

Cooking pancit is a piece of cake and there were several versions in cooking it. It depends on what ingredients you have. For me, I like my pancit with vegetables so for this one that I gonna cook I will put some pechay and spinach.

First, here are the ingredients:

1 whole chicken, meat stripped

Korean mushroom

3 oz ground pork

3 cloves of pechay - stripped

1 bunch of spinach

carrots, circular cut

onion

garlic

Knor cubes, chicken flavor

oil

soy sauce

garlic salt

chopped onion leaves

lime/lemon wedges (optional)

Process:

On separate pan, boil 2 cups of water and then add a Knor cube to taste. When soup boils, blanch the pechay, spinach, and carrots. Separate in one container after blanching. Set aside the veggies and broth for later.

On a separate basin, poor or run hot water from the faucet. Soak the cornstarch noodles until soft then drain well. Set aside for later.

On the wok, saute onion and garlic until brown. When brown, add the ground pork, then mix the stripped roasted chicken, then add the garlic salt to taste. Let it simmer for 2 minutes. Add 1 Knor cube to taste, then the mushroom. Stir well until thoroughly mixed.

When mushroom is totally cooked, add a cup of broth from the blanched vegetables and then let it simmer and then add the soy sauce, then add the soaked cornstarch noodles. Stir and mix the ingredients well. Salt the noodles with garlic salt to taste. If noodles still dry, add 1/4 cup of broth  to soften the noodles. Continue mixing until evenly cooked. Add the blanched pechay, coined carrots, and spinach and stir well until pancit it evenly covered with the veggies.

When mixed well, top the pancit with chopped onions and let it cool off. Taste pancit and savor the tasty flavor and the healthy veggies. make sure to squeeze some lime or lemon to add acid to the pancit which adds to the palatable taste of the noodles.

Voila , you just cooked a modified pancit. Delicious huh!