Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, bicol express. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Bicol Express is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Bicol Express is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Bicol Express is the ultimate comfort food! With pork cubes cooked in coconut milk and chili peppers, it's rich, creamy, spicy and delicious! Serve with steamed rice for a hearty and big flavored meal!
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have bicol express using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Bicol Express:
- Prepare 2 lbs pork belly, cut into strips
- Take 3 cups coconut milk
- Make ready 1 medium onion, minced
- Make ready 6 cloves garlic, minced
- Take 3 tbsp ginger, minced
- Prepare 1/2 cup shrimp paste (bagoong)
- Prepare 6 thai chili peppers or serrano pepper
- Make ready 2 tbsp cooking oil
- Prepare to taste Salt & pepper
Bicol express is also very easy to make. Bicol express is a spicy Filipino stew consisting of bite sized pieces of pork with chilies, coconut milk, shrimp paste (bagoong), onions, tomato and garlic. The dish is named after the train in the Bicol region of the Philippines, known for its spicy food. Bicol Express is a popular Filipino dish in which the slices of pork meat is cooked with coconut milk, shrimp paste, and chili pepper.
Steps to make Bicol Express:
- Take a wide pot or wok and heat cooking oil
- Saute garlic, onion, & ginger
- Add pork and continue cooking for 5-7 minutes or until the color becomes light brown
- Add shrimp paste (bagoong) and Thai chili or serrano pepper and stir
- Pour coconut milk and bring to boil. Simmer for 40 minutes or until the pork is tender
- Season with salt & pepper to taste
- Serve hot and enjoy!
There's a belief that this dish was adapted from a Bicolano dish called "Gulay na may Lada", meaning 'vegetable with chili'. Pork Bicol Express has the entire characteristic that I enjoy in a pork dish. It is tender, creamy, and tasty. In addition, it has that good amount of heat that can awaken my taste buds. This recipe that I am sharing today will give you a delicious and spicy Bicol Express that is worthy for that extra cup or so of rice that you will be having.
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