Pan Grilled Tuna Panga

Inihaw Na Panga or Grilled Jaws is a popular dish in the Philippines where soy sauce marinated fish jaws are grilled in charcoal. This is our favorite easy to do but very tasty recipe of tuna panga. 

Ingredients:

Marinade:

2 kg Large Fish (Tuna, Hapuka, Grouper) Jaw

½ cup soy sauce

calamansi juice

salt

freshly ground black pepper

Basting Sauce:

⅓ cup soy sauce

¼ cup water

⅓ cup packed brown sugar

calamansi juice

2 tsp cornstarch

garlic cloves

2 tbsp oil

Procedure:

Combine all marinade ingredients together.

Place fish in a zip lock bag together with the marinade, let it marinate for at least 2 hours.

Prepare your basting sauce. Place oil in a sauce pan then sauté garlic on low heat.

Combine remaining ingredients in a bowl then mix until free of lumps, pour over the sauce pan then bring to a boil. Simmer for 2 minutes or until it thickens.

Drain marinade from fish then place them on a grill (charcoal grill preferred) but I used a Tefal Fan. Cook for 10 to 15 minutes on each side while continuously basting with prepared basting sauce on the last 5 minutes of the cooking time.

Tuna Linguine

Ingredients:

2 tbsps butter

3 cloves, finely chopped garlic

1 medium, finely chopped onions

1 medium. finely chopped carrots

1 large, finely chopped red bell pepper

2 small pouches spaghetti sauce of you choice

1 can tuna in oil

400g liguine

A dash of Italian Seasoning

Procedure:

Heat butter in a skillet over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook for 1-2 minutes until lightly browned. Add onions, carrot and bellpeppers. Stir for 2 minutes, then add sapgheti sauce. Reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally.

Drain the oil from the tuna and add to the pan, breaking it up and mixing it through the sauce. Simmer for 5 minutes. Season with Italian Seasoning.

Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil. Add linguine and cook following packet directions or until al dente. Drain and transfer to a warm serving bowl.

Stir in the sauce, and top with cheese before serving.

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Samala Kitchen Delights

Resto Name: Samala Kitchen Delights
Location: 525 Padre Burgos Ave. Caridad, Cavite City
Type:  Filipino, American
Average Price Per Dish: P60-P150

This is one of our suki resto at home but we rarely eat here rather its always takeout. Now the long overdue review.

Over the years there are always changes in the menu design and items. This one is their latest. It is all white although majority of items are pretty much the same.

Yes they serve their spoon and fork wrapped in a printed Pat & Sam paper. 

Onion Rings -P60

One of our all time fave.

Clubhouse - P120

First time to taste this. Something is lacking. The price looks homemade. It was thinly cut than regular ones.

Liempo BBQ - P95

Soft and melts in your mouth liempo. Yummy garlic rice.

Buco Pandan - P60

Despite its frozen rather than creamy surprisingly its yummy. Has more nata de coco than buco pandan gulaman and I'm not complaining. 

Halo-Halo - P50

For P50 sulit ang laman. May macapuno pa but I don't mind adding extra bucks for an upgrade in milk kahit Alaska Full Cream to make it yummier.

Sago't Gulaman - P38

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Similar to Aurora's in taste. Yummy! 

The pasalubong center near rhe counter where one can buy various food items. 

Surprised to see they are offering pancit negra now with kamias 

And there is a wash area

Plus the only resto in the city that has a cctv camera - APRUB!

And they had the most matino and detailed receipt.

Takeout order:

Tapsilog - P95

The taste is okay but the serving of tapa is too little. 

Bangusilog - P95

 Sulit for the price. Another all time fave.

Overall, this is one the most well managed and decent small city resto owned by the same family of makers of the popular Samala Rice cakes which you can buy here. 

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Food – 3.75 stars
Service – 4.5 stars
Ambiance – 3.75 stars
Value – 4 stars

OVERALL RATING – 4.000 stars

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