Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, bicol express. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, 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! actually bicol express was first cook and eaten in tutuban train station, was invented by some kainan there and cely kalaw must have copied it from there! sa karindirya lang naimbento po ang bicol express by mistake ng taong alang pangalan. tapos pinangalanan ng bicol express base on the train "bicol express". peace.
Bicol Express is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Bicol Express is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have bicol express using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Bicol Express:
- Get Main ingredients
- Take 800 grams Pork belly(diced or long square strips)
- Prepare 1/2 cup Dried shrimps(tiny or baby shrimps)
- Get 4 Chili fingers(Julienned)
- Get 6 clove Garlic(Minced)
- Get 1 Red onion(chopped)
- Make ready 2 cup Coconut extract/Gata(Evaporated)
- Take 1 cup Coconut extract/Gata(Condensed)
- Prepare 1 Salt
- Take 1 Freshly ground black pepper
- Take Alternatives for dried shrimps
- Get 3 tbsp Bagoong Alamang(Shrimp paste) or….
- Get 1 Patis(Fish sauce)
It is made up of pork (you can use sirloin or liempo cut into cubes) coconut milk or "gata", green. 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 spicy pork stew cooked in coconut milk which is definitely one of the most popular dishes among Filipinos.
Steps 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.
Bicol Express has it's funny, if not weird, name from the train that travels the Naga(Bicol)-Manila route. Bicol Express is a popular Filipino dish in which the slices of pork meat is cooked with coconut milk, shrimp paste, and chili pepper. 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.
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