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Colorful Kwek-kwek


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Colorful Kwek-kwekKwek-kwek is a Filipino street food made of cute quail eggs coated with yellow batter. They are deep fried and served with a variety of sauces. Here's a twisted recipe of kwek-kwek specially made by me. I find it really appealing specially to the kids.

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Ingredients:

Colorful Kwek-kwek
 

Steps:

  1. Boil quail eggs in two cups of water for 5-10 minutes. Make them perfectly hard boiled.
  2. boiling quail eggs
     
  3. Cool and peel off the egg shells. Coat the eggs with cornstarch then set aside.
  4. corn starch coated eggs
     
  5. Mix flour, ground pepper, 1 tbsp cornstarch, 1/2 tsp salt, and 1 tsp sugar. Mix very well.
  6. mixing batter dry ingredients
     
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  7. Gradually pour in 1 cup of water as you stir the mixture. This is to avoid lumps in the mixture and to control the consistency.
  8. adding water to batter dry ingredients
     
  9. See if it's thick enough. You'll know, when the batter is not dripping off your spoon too fast.
  10. Colorful Kwek-kwek
     
  11. Divide the batter into the number of colors available. I have four so I divided the batter into four placing them into separate containers.
  12. batter in bowls
     
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  13. Pour pinches or a single drop of coloring in each container.
  14. food coloring added to batter bowls
     
  15. Mix them with a stick or spoon.
  16. mixed color bowls
     
  17. Dip the eggs into the colored batters.
  18. eggs in food coloring
     
  19. Coat the eggs. See to it that each has been fully coated with colored batter.
  20. Deep fry the eggs until cooked.
  21. cooking batter on Kwek-kwek
     
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Sauce

  1. Mince garlic, onion, and chilies.
  2. chopped chilis, onion and garlic
     
  3. Mix 1 tbsp ketchup, 2 tablespoon vinegar, 1/2 tsp sugar, 1/2 tsp cornstarch, and 1/4 cup water.
  4. sauce ingredients
     
  5. Stir the mixture until the sugar and cornstarch are dissolved.
  6. Sauté the garlic and onion.
  7. chopped garlic and onions in pan
     
  8. Add the sauce mixture.
  9. Kwek-kwek sauce in pan
     
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  10. Add minced chilies and let simmer until thick.
  11. simmering sauce
     
  12. You can also mix vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, cornstarch, and water and do the same procedure to make another sauce variation.
  13. Serve kwek-kwek along with the sauce. Enjoy!
  14. Colorful Kwek-kwek
     

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