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tarang bulan

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tarang bulan  - ( ta-r áng bu-lan ; Ta'u-sug snack; dw Bahasa Melayo tarang [bright] + Tausug bulan [moon]) [ n. ] bright moon pancake \stuffed folded golden pancake . Muslim hotcake in Chavacano [Zamboangueño] A traditional pancake made with a runny batter of flour mixed with some water (or fresh milk), baking powder, sugar, and yellow-orange food color. A Tausug lass selling tarang bulan in Zamboanga City public market. A pan is pre-heated and brushed with butter (or margarine) on the surface. A scoop of the batter is poured on the pan and set to cook on medium fire until the batter formed into a round patty of pancake with bubbly perforation on its surface and smooth on the underside. The pancake is removed from the pan and the top side is spread with sweetened boiled mongo beans (mungbeans) then folded halfway making it to look like a half-moon. When serving, the tarang bulan is sliced into parts. This snack originated in neighboring Asian countries and can be found also in...

pebre

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pebre - ( peb-re ; Caviteño sauce/condiment; dw Chilean (Chile, South America) pebre [salsa of assortment of chopped spices, tomatoes, and pepper] = Catalan (Catalonia region, Spain) pebre [pepper]) [ n. ] lechon sauce \liver sauce for lechon baboy . lechon sauce or sarsa ng litson in Tagalog lechon sauce in Cebuano, Ilonggo, Ilocano, Capampangan, and other Philippine languages and dialects This lechon sauce of Cavite City is used to be for lechon baboy only, but later on served as dip sauce for roasted and fried dishes, such as  litson manok,  fried pork chop,  and pritong isda, even for lumpia . It has paste of ground cooked liver of pig (or chicken), bread crumbs, water, brown sugar, onion, garlic, other spices,  salt,  and ground peppercorn. Named after the Chilean condiment of the same name but the foreign salsa is quite different being that it has no liver in the ingredients but assortment of spices, ground or pureed spicy aji peppers, and choppe...