Creative Cheese Dishes Straight from San Andres Market

How do you make an elegant dish straight from the Philippine’s wet market? Chefs from Sala Restaurant, Tagaytay Highlands, Cibo, C’ Italian Dining, and Peninsula together with a top Italian Chef, Francesco Berardinelli gathered together and made appetizing cheese recipe straight from San Andres Market – no recipes, jut pure imagination and expertise!

On a typical Manila jeepney, the group of Chefs went to San Andres Market to do their “marketing”. The instruction, “just buy whatever is there in the market and think of how you can make it work with ricotta, mascarpone, gorgonzola or mozzarella” – something like “Iron Chef”.

The chefs bought some kamote, squash flowers, sigarilyas, malunggay leaves, mangoes, magosteen, marang, local rice, and coconut, then headed to the kitchen and started their cooking. With their vegetables, fruits and other basic cooking ingredients at hand, they started their highly creative dishes combining Galbani cheeses into the finished product. And the result, nothing but unbelievably appetizing dishes!