Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, bicol express. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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!
Bicol Express is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Bicol Express is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have bicol express using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Bicol Express:
- Prepare 1 kilo pork belly
- Take 4 cloves garlic (minced)
- Get 1 red onion (sliced)
- Take 2 tomatoes (sliced)
- Take 4 cups coconut milk
- Make ready 1 cup coconut cream
- Make ready 3 tbsp. Shrimp paste
- Prepare 1 Red chilli pepper (sliced)
- Make ready 3 Finger chilli (sliced)
- Get 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:
- Heat the pan. Put the pork belly and wait for it's water to drain out and it's oil to come out. Make sure the pork has a light brown colour.
- Remove the pork from the pan, but leave it's oil.
- Using the oil, put the onion for 20 seconds, then the garlic for 15 seconds. Put the tomatoes after.
- Put back the pork belly, then put the coconut milk. Also, put the shrimp paste. Simmer for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Put the red chilli pepper, then simmer for 5 minutes.
- Put the coconut cream, then simmer for 5 minutes.
- Put the finger chilli, then simmer for 5 minutes.
- Uncover the pan and let the coconut milk evaporate until the sauce thickens. The thickness of the sauce depends on how you want it served.
- If it's too bland, add salt and pepper. You might also add shrimp paste to help. If it's not that spicy, put more chilli.
- Serve it with rice and a glass of coca-cola. 😊
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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