Easy and simple Chicken Potato Salad

The Chicken Potato Salad Recipe is a yummy and luscious main dish or side dish that is perfect for any Filipino occasions – Fiestas, birthdays, Christmas and New Year. Much more to this, it can also be included in your picnic recipe during Family day. With its distinctive flavor and aroma of chicken and potato, it will bring delight for the whole family.

Making a healthy and attractive main course is way too easy with the Filipino Chicken Potato Salad Recipe. Since it is a quick-fix dish that gets done in a matter of time, feel like an expert in your kitchen.

• 1 kilo potatoes
• 1 big chicken breast
• 3 pieces medium sized carrots
• 500 ml mayonnaise
• 1 can (836 g) pineapple tidbits or chunks
• 1/2 cup sweet pickle relish
• 1 medium sized onions, diced
• 1 cup cheddar cheese, diced (optional)
• 3 tablespoons of chopped spring onions (optional)
• Iodized salt to taste (pepper, optional)
• Spring Onions, diced (optional)

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How to make Filipino Fruity Chicken Salad

Filipino Fruity Chicken Salad Recipe is a fusion of the traditional Pinoy Fruit Salad and Chicken Salad.  If you are already tired of Chicken Macaroni Salad, Chicken Potato Salad or the traditional Fruit Salad, you will surely love this dish.

This nutty Fruity Chicken Salad is quite delicious, especially with the fresh grapes, melon and pears. It definitely gets an A+ rating, try it this Christmas!!

• 1 tsp. chicken bouillon powder
• 2 cups cooked chicken, cut into cubes
• 2 cups melon balls
• 2 cups seedless grapes
• 2 med. apples, cored and cut into cubes
• 1 med. green apple, core and cut into cubes
• 1 med. pear, cored and cut into cubes
• 1/4 cup celery, chopped (optional)
• 1/4 cup toasted cashew nuts, or any nuts available
• 3/4 cup nestle cream, chilled
• 1/4 cup mayonnaise
• Lettuce, for garnish
• sugar and white pepper to taste

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How to make Kangkong Salad

Filipino Kangkong Salad Recipe is another original Filipino dish.  Kangkong is also known as River Spinach, it is a common green leafy vegetable in the Philippines.

Kangkong, a common ingredient in many Filipino dishes. It is a usual leafy vegetable in fish or meat sinigang recipes. Another popular native dish among Filipinos using kangkong is Abobong Kangkong and the famous appetizer Kangkong Fritters.

Kangkong can also be made into a salad, here is the Filipino Recipes Portal version of the Filipino Kangkong Salad Recipe.

• 1/4 kilo Kangkong or River Spinach
• 2 small tomatoes (sliced into rings)
• 1 medium red onions (sliced into rings)
• 1 Red Salted egg (sliced)
• 1 medium cucumber (sliced into rings)Vinegar Dressing:
• 1/2 cups vinegar
• 1 small head of garlic (finely minced)
• 1/4 teaspoon Sugar
• a pinch of salt
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper (freshly grounded)

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Many Filipinos celebrate the New Year using  firecrackers in spite of the ban because of blast accidents. The loud noises and sounds of merrymaking are not only meant to celebrate the coming of the New Year but are also cast out malevolent spirits.  Safer methods of merrymaking include banging on pots and pans and blowing on car horns. Folk beliefs also include encouraging children to jump at the stroke of midnight so that they would grow up tall, displaying circular fruit and wearing clothes with dots and other circular designs to symbolize money, eating twelve fruits at 12 midnight for good luck in the twelve months of the year, and opening windows and doors during the first day of the New Year to let in the good luck.

“Media noche”, is a spanish word that means literally, “midnight”.    On December 31, New Year’s Eve (“Bisperas ng Bagong Taon”), Filipino families gather for the Media Noche or midnight meal it is a feast that symbolize to the hopes of Filipinos for a prosperous New Year.

Filipinos believe that we should put as much food on the table for the Media Noche so that next year you will have food all year round.   Pinoy Recipe Portal gather from our database of Filipino recipes our recommended Media Noche Recipes for your family.

Filipino Media Noche Recipes:

Celebrate the New Year with these easy Filipino recipes for the delicious and festive Media Noche.

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