Homesteading for 2018: How to Cook Adobong Pugo (A Quail Meat Dish)

Mabuhay Steemians! It's been months since I posted about foods, homesteading etc. and now I am back!!! So I hope you like this one guys!

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Just this morning I was told by my father to cook the meat in our fridge for our breakfast. By the way, here in the Philippines most of the food for the breakfast are consist with eggs, coffee (milk for the children or chocolate milk), hotdog, longganisa and pan-de-sal or Rice but my family is so unconventional one and when it comes to food we are "adventurous".

So opened the fridge and I was so surprised with what I saw.

No, these are not chicks. These are Quails!

So my father bought these Quails at our market. He bought it for 13 Pesos each (.26 USD per Quail). Yeah it's quite cheap, some even said that it's cheaper compared to Quails that are sold to neighboring cities (E.g. Ozamiz and Pagadian City).

We want to have a simple and easy-to-cook dish for these Quails, also, it's around 8:00 and our stomachs are knocking at us right the moment. So we decided to have Filipino's very own Adobo.

Adobo is a cuisine introduced by Spaniards and speaking of Spaniards. The Philippines was colonized by Spain for more that 300 Years, so long right? That's the sole reason why most of the Filipino cultures and foods are influenced by Spaniards.

Philippine Adobo (from Spanish adobar: "marinade," "sauce" or "seasoning") is a popular dish and cooking process in Philippine cuisine that involves meat, seafood, or vegetables marinated in vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, and black peppercorns, which is browned in oil, and simmered in the marinade. It has sometimes been considered as the unofficial national dish in the Philippines.

Quail meats are so hard to find but luckily there are poultry farms right now in the Philippines that are raising Quials to produce some eggs because we Filipinos believe that Quail eggs are are more nutritious than Chicken Eggs, they said that whenever Quails aged they are not that productive compared to young one's.

We are not burdened anymore to find Quails in the wild.

It's new to me since never in my life I tasted a Quail meat and I think it's exotic food. And I'm a person who is willing to try a new food that is unfamiliar to my pallete (except for cat and dog meat). Yeah, i'm quite excited to try this one.

I searched about Quails and these are what I got.

Although quail has a small body, it is possible that it has many nutrient in its meat. Commonly, quail meat has many nutrients such as protein, phosphor, fat, calcium, iron, and zinc.

11 Great Health Benefits of Eating Quail Meat

•Take care eye vision
•Take care our skin
•Solve symptoms of respiratory system
•Fix Body’s tissues
•Increase Immune System
•Take care heart healthiness
•Give nutritions for brain
•Solve Anemia
•Complete Energy Necessary
•Solve Problems of Digestion System

To know more about this kind of Meat just click this one.

So let's start.

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For the Ingredients you need the following:

Salt and Pepper (chop it to desired form)
Vinegar and Soy Sauce
Garlic and Onion
Cooking Oil
Water
Quail Meat
Msg

(I will not post anymore the photos of the Ingredients because I know that you are familiar with these Ingredients.)

The Procedure:

First chop the meat into quarter.

Heat the pan then pour the oil. Wait for a minute or three till the oils heats up.

Next put the Garlic and wait it until it's golden brown then put the Onion.

Quail Meat in.

After a couple of minutes put the pepper, salt and Msg(just a pinch of Msg). Then stir fry it for 5 minutes

Pour the the Soy Sauce, Vinegar and the water (300 ml.), cover the pan and then let it simmer for 15 to 20 minutes.

Now it's done and good to go! So Simple right!?

The table is now ready!! Lets Eat!!!

Maraming salamat for reading this post!!!

Watch out for more foods and homesteading!!

Your chillax steemian Neighbor,
@louielowa

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References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_adobo
https://drhealthbenefits.com/food-bevarages/meats/health-benefits-of-eating-quail-meat

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