Guam's Delicious Recipes

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Food from Guam is multi-cultural

Born and raised on Guam, I never stop comparing parties with the village-wide fiestas where EVERYONE is invited. Rub elbows with the mayors and senators of the island, and never tire of the abundance of food, music and laughter. With its multi-cultural population, Guam has many different flavors and tastes. Find the islanders' most requested recipes, originating from Spain, the Philippines and even Japan and Hawaii.

Chicken Adobo, Finadene, Red Rice, Filipino Lumpia, Poke and more! If you ever visit Guam, make sure to check out my favorite restaurant - Brutus - at the 1st floor of the ITC Building on Marine Drive. They've got the BEST fried rice on the island.

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Finadene - Island Sauce for EVERYTHING

Dip into it or pour it over EVERYTHING. Islanders NEVER do without it, and our off-island visitors bring this fabulous Guamanian recipe back home.

INGREDIENTS:
1 cup lemon juice
2/3 cup soy sauce
1 cup chopped onion
2 stalks of green onion, chopped
10-12 medium hot peppers, chopped or mashed according to your 'heat' preference

OPTIONAL:
Cherry tomatoes - sliced
Cucumbers - sliced
Lemon - sliced

DIRECTIONS:
Make this a few hours ahead or the night before. Mix all ingredients together and store in the refrigerator until you're ready to serve!

SERVE:
Pour it over rice (a standard for ALL Guamanians), over chicken, barbecue, ribs, fish, vegetables.

FUN FACT:
Guam's Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants hand them out like ketchup!

Poke with avocado

Delicious recipe with tuna sashimi from my sister, Sherry - she lives on Guam and is part owner of Brutus. My daughter, Micah, adds avocado and cherry tomatoes.

INGREDIENTS:
1 pound tuna sashimi, sliced in 1/2 inch squares
2-3 stalks of green onions, chopped
3 tablespoons of soy sauce
2 tablespoons of sesame seed oil
Sprinkle of sesame seeds
salt and pepper to taste
sugar to taste (optional)

Optional:
1 ripe avocado, cubed
Cherry tomatoes
1 cucumber, sliced

Directions,
Add all ingredients together, cover and let this marinade in the refrigerator until you're ready to serve with chopsticks!

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Lumpia Shanghai - The thinner rolls

Always asked for, and always pleases... I love my mom's lumpia - not only are each one of them perfectly wrapped and evenly sized.. they're delicious.

INGREDIENTS:
1 pound ground chicken, pork or beef
1 can chopped water chestnuts
1/2 cup green onions, chopped fine
1 egg
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1 tablespoon cornstarch
2 tablespoons water
1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 packages egg roll wrappers (use the Filipino brand)

Handling the wrappers:
Carefully separate each wrapper and place a damp towel or paper towel over the wrappers to keep it moist.

DIRECTIONS:
In a small bowl, mix water and corn starch.

Combine meat, water chestnuts, green onions, egg, soy sauce, salt and pepper.

Place a level tablespoon of filling on each egg roll wrapper approximately 1/5 inch above the bottom edge.

Start rolling from the bottom and the sides.

With your finger, brush corn starch mixture on the top edge of the wrapper and roll it over to seal.

Deep fry in very hot oil and drain on a paper towel.

SERVE:
Serve with sweet and sour sauce.

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Savory BBQ Spare Ribs

You will never have ribs so tasty as this.

INGREDIENTS:
3 lbs. pork spare-ribs
2 onions, thinly sliced
1/2 cup ketchup
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. tabasco sauce
1/8 tsp. chili powder
1 cup water

DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Place half of the ribs at the bottom of a heavy pan. Place a layer of onions over the ribs.

Combine ketchup, salt, tabasco sauce, chili powder and water.Pour half of this sauce over the ribs and onions.

Repeat layer of ribs, onions and sauce.

Cover with foil or oven cover, and bake at 350 degrees for 2 hours.

SERVE:
Serve with a bowl of Finadene Sauce on the side.

Guam's Red Rice

Savory and very flavorful. A must-have with your Island-Style Fiestas! Sprinkle Finadene all over it!

INGREDIENTS:
2 cups rice, rinsed (Calrose, sticky rice recommended. The kind you use for sushi)
2 Tablespoons achote seeds
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 Tablespoons cooking oil
1/2 cup chopped onions
2 cups water

Optional add-ons:
Bacon - chopped and cooked
Green Peas

DIRECTIONS:
Soak achote seeds in 1/2 cup warm water for 30 minutes. Add salt.

Rub or press achote seeds to get color in the water. Strain liquid into small pot with 1 1/2 cups of water and boil.

Saute onions.

Add rinsed rice, salt and onions to boiling achote colored water, and reduce heat to medium high for 5 minutes.

Reduce heat to low for 15 minutes or until cooked. Stir occasionally to prevent burning at the bottom.

Optional: Add peas and bacon during last 10 minutes of cooking time.

SERVE: with the rest of your Island meal. You don't have to visit Guam for this mouth-watering dish.

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Chicken Kelaguen

A popular side dish always present at Guam fiestas. You'll never guess - there is a Spam version of this (Spam, the potted meat, not the unsolicited email).

INGREDIENTS:
1 tablespoon salt
1/2 cup lemon juice
1 cup grated coconut
2 to 3 pounds whole chicken (others use chicken breast - use less cooking time)
6 small hot peppers (optional or use to your heat preference)

DIRECTIONS:
Cut chickens in half and sprinkle with salt. Place in a broiler pan or place in a pan over charcoal. Broil for 10 minutes only. The chicken should not be thoroughly cooked. Turn over and broil another 5 minutes. Debone, chop and/or grind the chicken.

Mix all ingredients and chill for at least one hour.

SERVE:
Serve as a side dish with tortillas.

Chicken Adobo

You'll never, ever ever have Chicken so tasty...

INGREDIENTS:
2 pounds chicken pieces
1 cup soy sauce
1 1/2 cups apple cider vinegar
3 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons sugar
2 bay leaves
1/2 tsp pepper

DIRECTIONS:
Combine all ingredients and cook over medium heat covered for up to 45 minutes. Sauce should be reducing.

Uncover and continue to cook until sauce is almost all gone. Lower heat, if necessary.

Enjoy!

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  • Chris102 Apr 27, 2012 @ 12:36 pm | delete
    We were stationed at NAS Agana from 71-73. There was a dish made with shrimp and lemon juice-may have been similiar to chicken kelaguaen but after all this time, just not sure. Would love to find it and make it-should have gotten the receipe while I was there! Thanks
  • poddys Dec 13, 2011 @ 3:20 pm | delete
    Sounds tasty, found your lens via Pinterest of all places.
  • lvdreamer7 Jul 2, 2011 @ 11:34 am | delete
    Please help me. I lived on Guam from from 1987 to 1989. I purchased Dorothy's Kitchen cookbook for the rib & chicken marinade. I have googled it & am unable to find it. Is there someone who can email that recipe?
  • DreamsFulfilled Jul 4, 2011 @ 4:37 am | delete
    I'll find out! I think my mom might have one.
  • EditorDave May 16, 2011 @ 9:10 pm | delete
    Hafa adai! Nice lens (and great recipes!) ... I've liked, favorited, thumbs-upped, and lensrolled your masterpiece! Congrats on a great job!
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For my lola (my grandmother)

Not one day do I remember visiting my grandmother when there was no food on the table. Or a day where she would fail to ask... 'Did you eat already?'

My grandmother (we called her lola), had a little farm behind her house. Fresh eggs, vegetables and mangoes.. even chili peppers.

Saturday nights were spent with dinners at her house. Family, friends, neighbors came to laugh, eat and play games together. Holidays were always at her house.

I especially love midnight Christmas eves - mostly because of her homemade hot chocolate, champorado and more lumpia.

I love you and miss you, lola.

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