Are there any of you familiar with the Phillipine seasoning called Magic Sarap?
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June 15th, 2013
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Hopefully we have some members from the Philippines (or others adventurous with various ethnic seasonings).
It’s from the makers of MAGGI (a well known bottled seasoning sort of similar to soy sauce but familiar worldwide).
These are little packets of dry granular seasoning and my main Q is regarding the directions for a recipe printed on the back. All the ingredient amounts are listed in the usual cups, tablespoons and so forth. However, it calls for “3 pcs” of Maggi Sarap.
It’s unlikely that it would mean 3 envelopes (since each contains 8 grams) as its quite strong and that seems like an awful lot. Since I’ve never used a Philipine recipe, before, I don’t know if there’s an indigenous meaning to 3 pcs with which I’m unfamiliar?
The only other thought I had was it might mean 3 pinches (but that seems a bit small.)
So, any thoughts on this (or experience, hopefully)?
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It probably means 3 sachets. On Nestles website they have a load of recipes using the stuff and several required 2 sachets.
Hmmm…that was my first thought also but this was a recipe for only a pound and a half of chicken and the Sarap is very strong and salty tasting PLUS its added to soy sauce.in addition.
Obviously I’m going to start out with WAY WAY less than three of the envelopes as I think that would really be overkill. That’s what had me questioning the amt. If they were cubes (like boullion) then pcs (pieces) that might sort of make sense but I’ve never seen a recipe for that small an amt. of meat needing 3 boullion cubes.
But thanks for the input. I’m just going to have to use my own sense of taste regardless of what the recipe states. But that’s what I usually do. I consider a recipe as a sort of general guideline and don’t routinely follow any of them slavishly but add my own tweaks as I go along.
“pcs” is usually an abbreviation for “pieces”. If the directions have been translated from Filipino or Tagalog (or some other language), then it’s probably an awkward way of saying 3 packages.
But that doesn’t mean you have to use that much if you find the flavour overpowering. As you say, just experiment with what you think would be appropriate.
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