Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, bicol express. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Bicol Express is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Bicol Express is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Bicol Express is pure 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 recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have bicol express using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Bicol Express:
- Make ready Main ingredients
- Make ready 800 grams Pork belly(diced or long square strips)
- Take 1/2 cup Dried shrimps(tiny or baby shrimps)
- Prepare 4 Chili fingers(Julienned)
- Take 6 clove Garlic(Minced)
- Get 1 Red onion(chopped)
- Take 2 cup Coconut extract/Gata(Evaporated)
- Get 1 cup Coconut extract/Gata(Condensed)
- Take 1 Salt
- Get 1 Freshly ground black pepper
- Make ready Alternatives for dried shrimps
- Take 3 tbsp Bagoong Alamang(Shrimp paste) or….
- Get 1 Patis(Fish sauce)
If you cook Bicol Express the way Speedy does, you get better texture, flavor and color. Bicol Express, as the name implies is a specialty dish from the Bicol region. It is a dish suited for those who love their food hot. Some Bicolanos sauté hot chili peppers and nothing else and enjoy this.
Instructions to make Bicol Express:
- In a pan, sauté the garlic and onions.
- Add the pork belly and stir fry for a couple of minutes.
- 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.
- Add the chillies and a cup of coconut extract(condensed) and continue to simmer for 10 minutes.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
Pork Bicol Express is a type of Filipino spicy pork dish. Pork slices are cooked in coconut milk with Thai chili and long green peppers. Its main source of flavor is derived from shrimp paste. 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.
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