Best Recipes With Calamansi
Calamansi is great in marinades, in stews or just eaten whole. Here's how you use it in the best recipes!
Servings 5 people
Cost $1
Ingredients
- 1 small pineapple properly washed, peeled and sliced crosswise
- 1 liter pineapple syrup extracted from boiling the peel
- ⅓ cup soy sauce
- ¼ cup brown sugar or to taste
- 2 medium “calamansi” or 1 lime or ½ lemon juice extracted
- 5 cloves garlic crushed
Instructions
Calamansi in a marinade
- You can use calamansi as a marinade for pork pata with a mixture of the “calamansi” juice and 1/6 cup or ½ of the 1/3 cup soy sauce.
- Flip the meat over several times for a uniform infusion of marinade. Then cook the pork.
Add calamansi to stew broth
- You can add calamansi to your stew broth to give it a slight acidic taste. Just add the calamansi in the beginning of the cooking process so the flavors can fuse into the meat or fish and vegetables in the stew.
Pinch of calamansi
- You can add a pinch of calamansi juice on top of your dish for a little extra sourness. This is used for pancit a lot, or add a little on top of your fish.
Calamansi eaten whole
- You can even eeat calamansi whole. It has a great sweet and sour flavor that's not too strong and you can eat everything from the peel to the seeds.
