🍚 Pastil

Meat · Main ingredient: Chicken · ⏱ 30 min · Serves 5 · ~₱230 · Best for: Breakfast, Lunch, Snack

Ingredients

• 4 cups Cooked white rice (freshly steamed)
• 1 pc Onion, chopped
• 4 cloves Garlic, minced
• 1 thumb Ginger, minced
• 2 tbsp Soy sauce
• 1 tsp Turmeric powder or achuete powder (for color, optional)
• 2 tbsp Cooking oil
• 3 pinch Salt, to taste
• 0.5 tsp Pepper, to taste

Instructions

1. Boil chicken thigh fillets in water with a little salt until fully cooked, about 20 minutes; remove, shred finely, and reserve the broth.
2. Heat oil in a pan and sauté onion, garlic, and ginger until fragrant.
3. Add shredded chicken, soy sauce, turmeric powder, salt, and pepper, and a few tablespoons of reserved broth; cook, stirring, for 8-10 minutes until the chicken is dry-sautéed and well seasoned.
4. Prepare the banana leaves by passing them briefly over an open flame to make them pliable.
5. Lay a portion of hot steamed rice onto a banana leaf square.
6. Top the rice with a generous portion of the sautéed shredded chicken.
7. Fold the banana leaf over the rice and chicken to wrap into a neat packet.
8. Serve warm, unwrapped at the table, traditionally eaten by hand.

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