Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, bicol express. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. 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 recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Bicol express is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook bicol express using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Bicol express:
- Take 1 1/2 cubed pork shoulders
- Get 1 onion diced
- Prepare 3 cloves garlic (minced)
- Prepare 1 serrano pepper/labuyo (or more accdg to spice preferences)
- Make ready 3 tbsp shrimp paste
- Get 1 cup coconut milk
Named after the train that travels between Manila and Bicol, this popular Bicolano dish will make you reach for water faster than the bullet train. 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:
- Sauté pork shoulder on a pan set on high heat with continuous mixing until fat browned and fat is rendered. Remove excess oil.
- Add garlic cook until browned and onions until transluscent.
- Add shrimp paste and mix until incorporated with ingredients.
- Pour coconut milk and let it simmer for 5 mins before adding chili. (this is to make sure that the spice is evenly distributed to the ingredients).
- Continue mixing until sauce thickens depending on your preference. (Some like it with a little sauce, I like it a bit dry.) Don't it will taste great just the same.😊
- Best served with white steamed rice. Enjoy.
The dish is named after the train in the Bicol. 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. Filipino recipes and Filipino dishes in general aren't that known for its use of spices or for being hot spicey dishes unlike its neighboring Southeast Asian countries.
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