Filipino Sizzling Pork Sisig Recipe
Pork Sisig is a very popular Filipino dish that originated from the province of Pampanga, the culinary capital of the Philippines. It was invented by a Filipina named Lucia Cunanan and eventually called Aling Lucia as “sisig queen” in her hometown. The dish typically served as pulutan to an ice cold beer by most Filipinos. But today, the pork sisig is also best Read more
Filipino Sinigang na Hipon Recipe (Sour Shrimp Soup)
Sinigang na hipon or commonly known as Sour Shrimp Soup is a very famous dish in the Philippines. It has a very tempting taste that everyone must enjoy to eat. Tamarind or sampaloc is the main ingredient of this dish that gives its sour and unique taste. In traditional way, you still have to boil the tamarind in the water to get the sour taste but today, there are already several brands of instant tamarind mixes that will make sinigang easier and faster.
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Filipino Kalderetang Kambing Recipe (Goat Meat Caldereta)
Kalderetang kambing is a very common dish in the Philippines. The main ingredient is goat meat known for its tenderness and nostalgic taste. This dish is pinoys favorite pulutan and is a requisite during fiestas and any occasions too. There are plenty of restaurants in the country that serves Caldereta with their unique cooking style but one thing is for sure, they always made it a mouth-watering taste. Goat meat is a very nutritious red meat which is excellent for those watching the waistline, cholesterol levels, and needing an alternative to the average hum-drum food.
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Filipino Crispy Pata Recipe
Crispy Pata is a special dish to every Filipinos because of its crispiness and very delicious taste. But before I give you the procedure on how to make a good crispy pata, let us try to know first the meaning of the word “crispy pata” and its origin. Crispy pata means deep fried pata with a crunchy rind and soft and moist meat inside. Pata is the front or hind leg of the pig. In the Philippines, that means the leg and the trotters (knuckles).
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Filipino Escabeche (Sweet and Sour Fish) Recipe
This old time Filipino recipe known as Escabeche (Sweet and Sour Fish) is highly rated as the most common dish which often available on any events or occasions. The seafood dish is being so much loved by most Filipinos because of its unique blending taste of sweet and sour that even small children would appreciate and enjoy eating it. Aside to its delicious taste, Escabeche is also a very healthy dish since their ingredients have different kinds of vitamins and nutrients which are very good to the body.
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Filipino Sinigang na Baboy (Sour Soup Pork) Recipe
Sinigang is a Filipino dish famous for the variety of ingredients one can use as well as for its taste. Though considered a soup, it is not eaten as is, but rather combined as a viand with rice. Sinigang is typically sour and is most often likened to Thailand’s tom yam. Sinigang’s characteristic taste is attributed to the ingredient that gives its sour taste, not to the meat’s flavor.
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Filipinos Loves to Eat Kare-kare
Kare-kare is a Filipino stew with a rich nutty sauce and served with a variety of vegetables, stewed oxtail, beef, and occasionally offal or tripe. Meat variants may include goat meat or chicken. It is often eaten with bagoong (shrimp paste), sometimes spiced with chili, and sprinkled with calamansi juice. Traditionally, any Filipino fiesta particularly in the Tagalog region is not complete without kare-kare. In some Filipino-American versions of the dish, oxtail is exclusively used as the meat.
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Guide in Preparing a Delicious Native Dinuguan (Blood Stew)
Ilocanos are very proud to have Dinuguan or pork blood stew in English as one of their dishes. It is a Filipino stew of blood and meat simmered in rich, spicy gravy of pig blood, garlic, chili, and vinegar. The term dinuguan comes from the word dugo meaning “blood”. It is recognizably thick and dark, hence the Westernized euphemism “chocolate meat.” It is similar to a Singapore dish, pig’s organ soup. The only difference is it does not have vegetables in it. For western cultures this dish is considered as unusual or maybe an alarming dish even though it is similar to European-style blood sausage or British black pudding, but in a saucy, stew form. This dish is so popular in the Philippines that everyone will find it at just about any occasion, from simple family gatherings to weddings.
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Bayanihan Adobo: A Very Tempting Filipino Dish
In a certain New York apartment, there were group of Filipino students gathered one evening to relieve their nostalgia for rice and adobo. As they sat down to begin supper, someone’s knocking at the door. The hostess opened the door and to everyone’s surprise, they saw a big Irish Policeman with the badge of authority written all over his six feet two. He came to investigate because the whole neighbor complained that a very strange smell was coming from the Filipinos’ apartment. Read more
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