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We will make a Special Hardinera!
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And of course, to make our Hardinera extra special, we will add Virginia Ham.
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Virginia is also reminding us that Chrismas will continue on.
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What we will add in our Special Hardinera is the Virginia Black Forest Ham.
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This is a smoked ham. This is how it looks.
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The color is very unique.
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I'll just get about one cup and i'll also get an extra for our toppings.
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The first thing we'll do is to fry the hotdog.
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If you don't have hotdog, it's fine to not add one.
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And yes, what i'm using is the Virginia Hotdog.
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When the hotdog is fried already, let's just remove it from the fire and let's start sauteing.
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Let's saute the onions. You can saute the garlic first, just make sure you wont burn it.
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And then add the garlic after.
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And now let's add the ground pork.
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And yes, you may use chicken or beef.
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Then let's add salt and pepper to taste.
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Let's cook it until the color of our meat turns light brown.
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The pork i'm using is kasim.
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It's better to buy the kasim meat part so that the meat will not get smaller or shrink.
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Here, let's add the carrots, raisins, pickles, crushed pineapple, sweet peppers, and grated cheese.
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In the many versions of Hardinera, you can always put a lot of ingredients on it.
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You have an option not to add all or not add carrots. You may just add raisins, pickles, and pineapple.
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You may also do just pickles without pineapple
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or no pickles just pineapple.
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In other words, you can do your own version.
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Others actually don't use ground meat, they use cube meat instead. That's the popular version in Quezon.
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Before I forget, if you will have the meat grinded, always advise to remove the skin.
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So that's kasim with a little fat but without the skin. That's perfect!
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That kind of ground meat is perfect for spam, longganisa, chorizo, embutido, and a lot more.
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And now let's add our fried hotdogs
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and our Virginia Black Forest Ham.
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And yes, you may use any Virginia Ham products.
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Just cut it into small pieces.
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Let's just continue cooking and let's mix it. However, it looks like the one I used for cooking is small
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that's why we will transfer it so that I will not have a hard time.
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If you noticed, there's a little water in our ground meat so I will not longer add water.
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But if in your case it's dry, you may add a little water.
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Here, let's continue cooking.
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Let's add the tomato sauce and banana ketchup.
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If you don't have banana ketchup, you can use the sweet style ketchup.
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Let's mix it and cook it for 10-15 minutes over medium-low heat.
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And yes, you may add a little sugar and oyster sauce.
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It's tastier when there's a litte sweetness.
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There, the liquid is already absorbed.
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At this point, you may taste it so that you will know if it lacks saltiness or it lacks sweetness.
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And if you're okay with the taste, you may turn off the fire and let out mixure cool completely.
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When our mixture is cool, let's slightly beat some eggs.
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This will serve as our binder so that our hardinera will not separate from each other.
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Then let's pour it in our mixture.
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Again, the mixture should be cold before we add our slightly beaten eggs
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because if the ground meat is still hot, the eggs will be cooked.
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So let's just mix it well until we have incorporated our ground meat and eggs.
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For our mold, since I want a big one, I used a cake pan.
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Then I just added a parchment paper at the bottom, so that it can be easily removed.
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Before we add our mixture, let's add a design at the bottom
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so that when we turn it over, it will look nice.
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So we sliced the egg into half so that the yolk will be shown and carrots that we formed into a flower.
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You may also add pineapples, raisins with peppers, and of course we will add the Black Forest Virginia Ham.
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So it will be up to you on what design you want for your Hardinera.
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So here's my design. Let's now add the mixture in our mold.
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I will not fill all the mold; just about 1 and a half inches only.
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And yes, you may use a loaf pan and llanera as your mold.
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I will show you later if you want to use llanera as your mold.
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Then cover it with aluminun foil. Make sure you put the aluminum foil tightly.
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Here's our llanera mold. So just the same, add a parchment paper at the bottom of our mold and add a design.
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You may use banana leaf if you have access to it.
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And yes, you can also use aluminum foil.
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On the other hand, the banana leaf contributes to the taste and aroma.
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If you're using llanera, you may fill it up.
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So what we made is one big pan and two medium sized llanera.
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Let's put our big hardinera in a steam basket.
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This is the first one I will cook.
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I can only heat one because my steamer is small.
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Let's steam it for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until it sets.
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You may check it after an hour to see if it's all good.
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That's what I did.
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So here it is after 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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If you want to make sure, you may use a stick.
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Just poke it to see if it's firm or it's set. Check if it does not separate anymore.
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But just by looking at it, you will know that it's already cooked right?
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Let's remove it and let it cool for 15 to 30 minutes before we remove it in the mold
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so that it will not get destroyed.
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And when it has been rested, you may already remove it from the mold.
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So let's just scrape the sides to release our Hardinera.
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And yes, when it's already cold, you may place it in the fridge overnight.
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Then let's transfer it in a big plate.
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But I will transfer it in a chopping board instead.
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This is my chopping board for food display.
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I just added a parchment paper.
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And here is our Special and Beautiful Hardinera.
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So our parchement paper is left in our mold.
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For our two small Hardinera; if you want to give it as a gift or to sell it,
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you may place it in clear packs.
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And by the way, these Hardinera in the llanera is cooked for 45 minutes to 1 hour over low heat.
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Here, let's just cover it and to make it nicer for gifts this Christmas,
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you may place a ribbon.
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And of course, a red ribbon is really suitable for Christmas and New Year.
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So it's more presentable, right? It's looks really good.
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Our Special Hardinera is for business and gifts and is very suitable this Christmas.
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But before we proceed with our Taste Test,
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So here, let's taste it!
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I'm super excited to taste it because I can really smell Christmas.
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You know the smell of Christmas especially when you hang around the kitchen during holidays or
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when there are parties, and there are people cooking; oh my gosh!
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You know that distinctive smell knowing that a kind of food is made specially in Christmas,
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New Year, or your Birthday. Just like that!
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That's why this has a very familiar smell.
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Oh! The smell is just like embutido. Yes!
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Here it is when it's sliced already.
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So there. See it?
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So let's taste it.
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I want rice!
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So delicious.
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It's delicious and meaty!
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The sweetness is there and it's very savory.
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It's sweet and savory. Like that!
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The Hardinera is already special because of the ingredients we put in it, right?
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But it's more special because we added the Virginia Black Forest Ham.
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You know that the taste of your Hardinera was not thrifted. Really like that!
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It's so delicious.
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I really feel Christmas already! Oh my God, just a few days left, right?
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It's Christmas!
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I know many of you are thinking about what to prepare for Christmas and New Year;
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you can try this out because it's really so delicious.
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We are very familiar with Hardinera, right?
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However it's not always prepared. You can only see Hardinera on special occasions just like Christmas.
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You don't even see this on birthdays, right?
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When I go on birthdays, I don't see any Hardinera.
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Embutido is more common to see on birthdays.
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Oh and by the way, for those who are wondering if the hardinera, embutido, and everlasting is just the same,
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they have similarities when it comes to the ingredients.
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The only difference is the way it's cooked.
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For the Hardinera, you need to cook it first, saute it, the steam it.
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For the embutido, you need to mix the ingredients first then you steam it.
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There's also other versions of Hardinera where you mix the ingredients, add it in llaneras, then steam it.
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If you will ask me wheather the taste of embutido and hardinera are the same; there's a slight similarity
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but the Hardinera is tastier because maybe we still sauteed it and tne meat's taste is enhanced and everything is there.
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I actually called my mom first before I cooked this because she also made one.
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Then I asked her if it's better to steam directly or to saute it first then steam it.
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She said it's tastier if it's sauteed first or cook it then steam it.
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And I also noticed the difference.
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It's really... I can't explain it!
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The taste is the same but there's really a slight difference. It's more tasty!
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Cause my mom is so fond of cooking embutido.
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When I was young, there's always embutido every Christmas, New Year, and Birthdays.
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I'm really familiar with the taste.
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So now that i've cooked Hardinera, you can really compare it embutido.
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Both are still delicious but this is really tastier.
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It's because of the ingredients we added.
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The smoke flavor Virginia Black Forest Ham, it's really delicous.
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It's gives a different texture and flavor in our Hardinera.
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That's why this Christmas, don't forget to add the Virginia Black Forest Ham in your grocery list for you to taste it.
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And to make your simple Christmas special.
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You can also try the their other ham, they have plenty of varieties that you can choose from.
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If you want to use them, you may do so.
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And there's a free pineapple syrup in our ham. Every ham has one.
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Let's try adding this.
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It's really pineapple.
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I hope I added this when we were sauteing, because this is very suitable since we have pineapple in the ingredients.
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Others actually add in pineapple juice.
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This one is already seasoned since it's in syrup so this comes in handy.
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If you will make a Hardinera, do not forget to add a little then taste it, then just add more.
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Ugrhhh! I wish I added one.
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So here, it's delicious!
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And again, whatever storm may come in our lives, Christmas will still continue!
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That's why just keep the faith and don't lose hope.
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