Recipe of Perfect Bicol Express

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, bicol express. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Bicol Express is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Bicol Express is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

The day after I made my very first gising-gising, I packed half of it to work for one of my co-workers to try. She is from Bicol, and I was interested to know what she thought of my newfound recipe. Instead of the rave review I expected, she barely touched the portion I ladled on her plate. In a pan or a wok, sauté garlic, onion, and tomatoes in oil.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first 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:

1. Prepare Main ingredients
2. Get 800 grams Pork belly(diced or long square strips)
3. Make ready 1/2 cup Dried shrimps(tiny or baby shrimps)
4. Get 4 Chili fingers(Julienned)
5. Take 6 clove Garlic(Minced)
6. Prepare 1 Red onion(chopped)
7. Take 2 cup Coconut extract/Gata(Evaporated)
8. Make ready 1 cup Coconut extract/Gata(Condensed)
9. Make ready 1 Salt
10. Get 1 Freshly ground black pepper
11. Make ready Alternatives for dried shrimps
12. Prepare 3 tbsp Bagoong Alamang(Shrimp paste) or….
13. Get 1 Patis(Fish sauce)

Fatty pork cuts such as pork belly and pork shoulder are preferred. These are cooked by boiling in coconut milk along with chili peppers and spices. Bicol Express, known natively in Bikol as sinilihan (lit. ' spiced with chili '), is a popular Filipino dish which was popularized in the district of Malate, Manila but made in traditional Bicolano style. Bicol Express is a popular Filipino dish in which the slices of pork meat is cooked with coconut milk, shrimp paste, and chili pepper.

Instructions to make Bicol Express:

1. In a pan, sauté the garlic and onions.
2. Add the pork belly and stir fry for a couple of minutes.
3. 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.
4. Add the chillies and a cup of coconut extract(condensed) and continue to simmer for 10 minutes.
5. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Bicol Express, known natively in Bikol as sinilihan (lit. ' spiced with chili '), is a popular Filipino dish which was popularized in the district of Malate, Manila but made in traditional Bicolano style. 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'. This Bicol Express Recipe is a flaring hot Filipino dish that is distinctly loved because of the marriage of flavors of coconut which is an abundant agricultural product in the Bicol region and chilies which are also evident in every Bicolanos diet. Bicol express is also very easy to make.

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