Bicol Express
Bicol Express

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, bicol express. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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!

Bicol Express is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Bicol Express is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bicol express using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Bicol Express:
  1. Get 1 kilo pork belly
  2. Get 4 cloves garlic (minced)
  3. Prepare 1 red onion (sliced)
  4. Make ready 2 tomatoes (sliced)
  5. Make ready 4 cups coconut milk
  6. Make ready 1 cup coconut cream
  7. Make ready 3 tbsp. Shrimp paste
  8. Prepare 1 Red chilli pepper (sliced)
  9. Take 3 Finger chilli (sliced)
  10. Take to taste Salt & pepper

Bicol Express is a spicy pork stew cooked in coconut milk which is definitely one of the most Bicol Express has it's funny, if not weird, name from the train that travels the Naga(Bicol)-Manila route. Bicol Express is a Filipino dish of browned pork cooked with finger chilies and coconut cream. If you cook Bicol Express the way Speedy does, you get better texture, flavor and color. 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.

Instructions to make Bicol Express:
  1. 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.
  2. Remove the pork from the pan, but leave it's oil.
  3. Using the oil, put the onion for 20 seconds, then the garlic for 15 seconds. Put the tomatoes after.
  4. Put back the pork belly, then put the coconut milk. Also, put the shrimp paste. Simmer for 10 to 15 minutes.
  5. Put the red chilli pepper, then simmer for 5 minutes.
  6. Put the coconut cream, then simmer for 5 minutes.
  7. Put the finger chilli, then simmer for 5 minutes.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Serve it with rice and a glass of coca-cola. 😊

The dish is named after the train in the Bicol. 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, as the name implies is a specialty dish from the Bicol region.

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