Filipino recipe

Pancit Canton Guisado

Name: Pancit Canton Guisado
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Filipino
Ingredients: 500 g Super Q Pancit Canton; 250 g pork belly, sliced thin; 200 g shrimp, peeled; 100 g squid, sliced into rings (optional); 2 pieces Chinese sausage, sliced on the diagonal; 4 cloves garlic, minced; 1 medium onion, sliced; 2 medium carrots, cut into matchsticks; 1 cup snow peas (sitsaro), trimmed (optional); ¼ small cabbage, shredded; 3 to 4 cups chicken or pork broth; 4 tbsp soy sauce; 2 tbsp oyster sauce; 2 tbsp cooking oil; Salt and ground pepper, to taste; Spring onions and calamansi wedges, to serve

The handaan centrepiece: glossy, chewy, and the first plate to empty.

Stir-fried pancit canton with pork, shrimp, squid, Chinese sausage and vegetables, made with Super Q Pancit Canton. For birthdays, bilao orders and selling.

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Prep: 20 min
Cook: 25 min
Total: 45 min
Serves: 6 servings

Two packs of Super Q Special Pancit Canton beside a plate of pancit canton with shrimp, squid, pork, Chinese sausage and cabbage

Pancit canton is the pancit on the birthday table, and the one most people picture when they hear "handaan." Super Q Pancit Canton is a wheat-based noodle, puffed by deep frying the cooked noodles, which gives it a firm texture that stays chewy under a glossy sauce.

The skill is in the liquid. Canton drinks broth fast, so add it gradually and stop when the noodles are tender, not when the pan is dry.

Ingredients

500 g Super Q Pancit Canton
250 g pork belly, sliced thin
200 g shrimp, peeled
100 g squid, sliced into rings (optional)
2 pieces Chinese sausage, sliced on the diagonal
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 medium onion, sliced
2 medium carrots, cut into matchsticks
1 cup snow peas (sitsaro), trimmed (optional)
¼ small cabbage, shredded
3 to 4 cups chicken or pork broth
4 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp oyster sauce
2 tbsp cooking oil
Salt and ground pepper, to taste
Spring onions and calamansi wedges, to serve

Instructions

1
Check the pack
Pancit canton usually goes into the broth dry, with no soaking. Check the instructions on your Super Q Pancit Canton pack before you start.
2
Cook the meat and seafood
Heat the oil and cook the Chinese sausage briefly to release its fat. Add the pork and cook until browned. Add the shrimp and squid and cook just until done, then lift the seafood out so it does not overcook.
3
Cook the vegetables
Add the garlic and onion and cook until fragrant. Add the carrots, snow peas and cabbage and toss for about two minutes, then set the vegetables aside.
4
Build the sauce
Pour three cups of the broth into the pan. Add the soy sauce and oyster sauce, season with salt and pepper, and bring to a simmer.
5
Cook the canton
Add the Super Q Pancit Canton and loosen the strands with tongs as they soften. Let the noodles take up the liquid, adding more broth a little at a time until they are tender.
6
Finish
Return the vegetables and seafood and toss everything together. Serve hot with spring onions and calamansi.

Tips

Add the broth gradually. You can always loosen pancit canton with more broth, but you cannot take liquid back out.

For a bilao that will travel, take it off the heat while it is still slightly firm. It keeps cooking in the tray.

Cooking it for someone you love

Pancit canton is on almost every Filipino birthday table. Make it for someone on their birthday and you have given them the long-life noodles and the party on one plate.

Selling it: pancit canton pang-negosyo

Super Q Pancit Canton has a firm texture, which suits bilao, party and delivery orders where the noodles wait before they are eaten.

Cook slightly underdone for anything that has to travel.
Send a small cup of extra hot broth with large orders so customers can loosen the noodles at the table.
Make one generous sample bilao for your page photo. Pancit canton sells on how it looks.

Buying noodles in bulk for your business? See wholesale and distributor orders.