Bicol Express
Bicol Express

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, bicol express. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Bicol Express is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Bicol Express is something that I have loved my whole life.

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 begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook bicol express using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Bicol Express:
  1. Make ready Main ingredients
  2. Take 800 grams Pork belly(diced or long square strips)
  3. Get 1/2 cup Dried shrimps(tiny or baby shrimps)
  4. Make ready 4 Chili fingers(Julienned)
  5. Get 6 clove Garlic(Minced)
  6. Get 1 Red onion(chopped)
  7. Take 2 cup Coconut extract/Gata(Evaporated)
  8. Prepare 1 cup Coconut extract/Gata(Condensed)
  9. Make ready 1 Salt
  10. Make ready 1 Freshly ground black pepper
  11. Take Alternatives for dried shrimps
  12. Take 3 tbsp Bagoong Alamang(Shrimp paste) or….
  13. Make ready 1 Patis(Fish sauce)

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:
  1. In a pan, sauté the garlic and onions.
  2. Add the pork belly and stir fry for a couple of minutes.
  3. Add 2 cups of coconut extract(evap) and dried shrimps(or other alternatives) then bring to a boil and simmer in medium heat for 20 minutes or until the coconut extract had reduced to a thick oily gravy.
  4. Add the chillies and a cup of coconut extract(condensed) and continue to simmer for 10 minutes.
  5. Add salt and pepper to taste.

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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