Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, bicol express. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. 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 popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Bicol Express is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook bicol express using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Bicol Express:
- Prepare 1 lb pork, cut into small pieces
- Prepare Garlic, minced
- Get Onions, sliced
- Take 2 roma tomatoes, sliced
- Make ready 1 cup coconut milk
- Prepare Red chili, sliced
- Make ready Green chili, sliced
- Make ready 2 tbsps shrimp paste
- Get Ground black 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.
Instructions to make Bicol Express:
- In a pan, fry pork until golden brown, remove from pan. Use the remaining oil to saute garlic and onions
- Add tomatoes, cook until tomatoes softened.
- Add the fried pork, combine well
- Add coconut milk, stir and cook until the pork absorbs the coconut milk
- Add red chili, shrimp paste and sprinkle some ground black pepper, mix well
- Add green chili and simmer for 2 minutes.
- Serve
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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