Pancit Molo
The Blog Monster has a collection of recipes which she put together a few years ago. I remember that she asked me to “design” the front cover. After some discussion this is what we came up with.
Daily Menus
7 Week Cycle
With Weekly Market Orders
Proven Effective, even for beginners
Looking back, I realize that it’s probably low on the WOW marketing factor (definitely not the most catchy title) but really, the cover says it all. It’s a selection of the food we grew up with and ate every day. There are daily recipes (usually a meat or fish dish accompanied by a vegetable dish) good for seven weeks. A total of 49 days worth of menus which means, you never get tired of eating the same thing. At the end of each week there is a section so that you know exactly what to shop for that week. The recipes are simple and more importantly delicious. I always go back it whenever I get homesick.
Team Kulinarya decided on Pancit for this month’s team. Pancit will usually refer to noodles in Philippine cuisine. This is however, another type of pancit which comes from a province called Iloilo. Unlike most of the pancit you will see this month, this one is a dumpling soup. The recipe is adapted from The Blog Monster’s Daily Menus book.
Pancit Molo
This soup is full of light, almost cloud like chicken and prawn dumplings. The broth is flavoured with homemade chicken stock, a smoked pork bone and annatto powder. The dish is made even heartier with the addition of shredded chicken, slices of ham and a soft boiled egg. It’s comfort food in its truest form!
Recipe for Dumplings (serves 6)
- 2 packs wanton wrappers
- 500 grams chicken mince
- 300 grams raw prawn meat, diced
- 1 onion, diced and boiled until translucent and drained
- 2 spring onions, diced
- 1 large carrot, diced
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon white pepper
Mix all ingredients in a large bowl. Pick up the dumpling and throw it back into the bowl as if you are slapping the filling on to the surface. Do this around 20 to 30 times and this ensure a light but firm texture. Lay a wanton wrapper on your work surface and place a teaspoon or so of the dumpling filling on the wanton wrapper. Wet the sides of the wanton skin and fold the wanton wrapper into a triangle. Fold the two corners of the triangles together. Repeat with the rest of the filling. Set aside.
For the broth
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 onion, sliced
- 5 cloves of garlic, crushed
- 1 teaspoon annatto powder
- 6 cups homemade chicken broth (a chicken bouillon can be used instead)
- 1 smoked pork bone
- 1 chicken breast
- 2 slices of ham
- fish sauce to taste
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 6 soft boiled eggs (1 per person)
- Sliced spring onions
- Heat the oil in a large saucepan.
- Add the onion and garlic and fry for a few minutes until translucent.
- Add the annatto powder and fry off a minute or two.
- Add the chicken broth and pork bone and bring to a boil.
- Add the pre-made dumplings.
- Simmer the soup for around 30 minutes.
- Season with the fish sauce, salt and pepper.
- Remove the chicken breast and shred
- To assemble pour some of the soup and dumplings on a bowl. Top with the shredded chicken, slices of ham, spring onions and soft boiled eggs.
Kulinarya Cooking Club was started by a group of Filipino foodies living in Sydney, who are passionate about the Filipino culture and its colourful cuisine.
Each month we will showcase a new dish along with their family recipes. By sharing these recipes, we hope you find the same passion and love for Filipino Food as we do.
If you’re interested in joining our Kulinarya Cooking Club, please feel free to drop by our foodblogs and leave a comment – we would love to hear from you!
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[…] Pancit will usually refer to noodles in Philippine cuisine. This is however, another type of pancit which comes from a province called Iloilo. Unlike most of the pancit you will see this month, this one is a dumpling soup. This soup is full of light, almost cloud like chicken and prawn dumplings. The broth is flavoured with homemade chicken stock, a smoked pork bone and annatto powder. The dish is made even heartier with the addition of shredded chicken, slices of ham and a soft boiled egg. It’s comfort food in its truest form… read more […]
definitely yummy 🙂
;I am impressed with the post. If you can do a youtube video for it. i would watch! 🙂
Hi Trissia,
stumbled on your blog at marketmanila’s blog site. This is my first time on your blog. I like the pancit molo recipe and the presentation is beautiful.
I like the idea of your daily menu. I need that as I am totally disorganized when it comes to meal planning.
Oh you have no idea how much my children loving the prawn dumpling/wanton! They could simply finished up one big pot of prawn wantons just a zip…. Yours recipe sound pretty good too. I love trying this for my kids too. Hope they’ll like it too!
Cheers, Kristy
Perfect comfort food. And how’d you get the soft boiled egg perfectly out of it’s shell like that!
Yum. I’m feeling hungry now…. but it’s midnight.. sigh
What a beautiful dish Trissa. I love the combo.
Wow looks absolutely delicious! I know what I’m having for dinner tomorrow!!
This sounds great! And perfect for winter! I love anything with dumplings AND egg! 🙂
Hey Trissa, this soup looks delicious. My favorite soups are broth soups like this with everything in them arranged so pretty. It’s beautiful and delicious. OOH, and I recently made wontons-so good! I need to read you last post-it has an interesting title…
Pancit molo has got to be one of my favorite soups ever! We also have a family recipe from my paternal grandmother who does it to perfection…and least for me 🙂 Yours looks perfect! I have never had it with a soft boiled egg but I am loving it already!
Well this is just about perfect for this rainy day we’re having!
Wonderful! I don’t know much about Philippine cuisine but I can see that I’m missing out something MAJOR! Love this hearty soup, Trissa. I think I can adapt it quite easily to suit my family preferrence, too…
Um, I am pretty sure if you turn to the page in the dictionary that “comfort” is written on, a bowl of this falls out.
Learnt about another yummy Filipino cuisine. The broth looks so rich and amazing.
The sliced ham reminded me of the macaroni soup in Hong Kong!
This noodle soup has got so many ingredients and I bet it is flavorsome 🙂
I just asked the Pom whether he had pancit molo while in Philippines last week. He said no… FAIL!
If I was there, I would have this bowl of noodle soup for breakfast every morning!!!
That looks great. I don’t believe I had that before. I have to try this next time I made soup.
so right for winter! I baptise this as “Special Pancit Molo” as it has lots of toppings which I really like:)
Trissa your pancit molo looks so delicious, I love the addition of ham and soft boiled egg…so yummy! 🙂
Oh the soup looks fabulous, just the kind of food I LOVE!!! Yum, yum!
That sounds like a must have cookbook if you ever decide to have it published.
I think it is a great idea to compile the family recipes into a book… the dumplings look very good!
A bowl of hot soup like this is just what I need to curl up on the sofa on cold nights 😉 yum!
Mmmm, that is just goodness in a bowl. I can just imagine sipping the broth and warming you up. Love all the different meat that goes in the Pancit Molo, a complete meal.
Trissa, all simple, healthy homemade dishes are the best, even though the name/title has no market value. Truly, I buy in.
I can eat the noodle soup like yours for 7 days a week in a row.
How absolutely gorgeous Trissa. I actually had to gulp down the drool as I was waiting this. Having lived all those years in Singapore there is nothing I love more than a big bowl of soup with wontons, veggies, egg & all the goodies you’ve managed to bring together here.
BTW, I miss Sydney so much being a UNSW student and all 🙂
Sigh…..
Ciao, Devaki @ weavethousandflavors
Wow, what a nice wonton soup…so comforting…great pictures as well 🙂 Love the broth!
A big, steamy bowl of this would be just the ticket right now. Especially because I am suffering through a dasterdly cold. Ugh. Cough, cough….
Looks delicious. Quite like wonton. This would be so welcoming as the weather is still quite cold even though it’s already spring.
What an absolutely stunning dish, Trissa! I can’t wait to try it. Comfort at its finest!
What a beautiful dish. All the colours and the textures you have in there look simply amazing.
WoW! your Pancit molo looks so beautiful. I love the extra garnishes you added, like the ham and egg to make it a complete meal.
this soup looks perfect for a cold winters night, and it would be extremely filling. A perfect way to warm the tummy and soul.
That is one beautiful soup. I am so unfamiliar with food of the Philippines… thanks for sharing this wonderful cuisine with those of us who are not knowledgeable about it!
mmm…dumplings. i think all soup should contain dumplings. 🙂
great blog you got here! Awesome photos as well. I really appreciate people who do take time to take nice photos of food. I love pancit molo! nothing like it on a cold rainy day after waking up from a most epic nap! Reminds me of wonton soup of the chinese only more salty.
Cheers,
Carlos
http://www.foodiemanila.com
Talk about comfort food – I feel comforted just by reading the ingredients and looking at the pictures. Thanks! 😀
You must have read my mind! I’ve been meaning to make dumplings, but every recipe yields 50, and I was thinking that I may need to freeze most of them. This will be a great alternative to pan fried dumplings. I also like that the broth recipe calls for a smoked pork bone – YUMMY!
Wow, I’d love to have some of this right now!!!
Where did you find the annatto powder and what does it taste like?
YUM!
🙂
Valerie
I do love this idea of a cooking club! And this soup looks so perfect for this cold weather! 😀
I have never tried Filipino food but I would definitely love to! I like eating soups even during the spring or summer months so this looks like a great dish to start with. I like the whole egg in the soup 🙂
Magda
Your Pancit Molo looks great. I’ve actually considered joining your Kulinarya Cooking Club but my Filipino cooking repertoire is quite short!
BTW, I’ve enjoyed reading your blog!
YUMM! I love dumplings but always been intimidated from trying them at home.. think I’ll have to break the scare cycle soon with your mom’s recipe!! :))
So, is the book on sale or for family?
Thank you for sharing this recipe. I haven’t made this in ages, not because i don’t like it. I wanted a good recipe! This will be in my top to do list.
Ah, how sarap naman this is. Want this for breakfast or merienda! 🙂
What a wonderful find! I am so excited because soon I will be working with a Filipino cook and I wanted her to explore more of her native foods with us.
I will like to have a copy of that book. I like this noodles soup.
I like the look of these dumplings. I love a warming soup and the little additions are goodies that I would keep in my bowl for the end.
Prawn wontons…with homemade broth–that sounds too good to miss! With some longevity noodles, this would make a perfect birthday dish.
Ooh! That egg looks perfectly boiled. On a lazy note, this now just makes me want to ask mum to cook this for me. It’s been years! I’ll likely get the answer of “son…cook it yourselp!” LOL
What I’d like to know is how much you’d spend shopping every week on these menus! Heaven knows I blow a ton of money for one stupid meal, ha ha ha!
I love pancit molo – it’s a great light meal, and perfect with a soft, warm sweet dinner roll 🙂
It does look comforting Trissa! Perfect for the cool weather at the moment! Did I tell you I have a “dumpling featish”? They look amazing!
This noodle is great for the current chilly weather! You mom has so many great recipes to share and you are so lucky to have her put them together. My mom’s recipes are a little bit this, a little of that……….
Definitely agree that this IS comfort food =)
I love pancit molo! Your version looks gorgeous!
pancit molo has always been in our noche buena repertoire… although we never had it with ham but i’d imagine it adds an interesting flavor into the pancit molo…
it’s a little chilly tonight, this bowl of pancit molo would be the most comforting to have…haha!
xo,
malou
Your pancit molo looks delicious. So comforting. I would love a bowl since I currently have the flu. Cheers to another succesfull Kulinarya month