Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, bicol express. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really 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 foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Bicol Express is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must 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:
- Get 1 kilo pork belly
- Take 4 cloves garlic (minced)
- Prepare 1 red onion (sliced)
- Make ready 2 tomatoes (sliced)
- Prepare 4 cups coconut milk
- Prepare 1 cup coconut cream
- Get 3 tbsp. Shrimp paste
- Get 1 Red chilli pepper (sliced)
- Prepare 3 Finger chilli (sliced)
- Prepare to taste Salt & pepper
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. 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. Bicol is always associated with spicy food.
Instructions to make Bicol Express:
- 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.
- Remove the pork from the pan, but leave it's oil.
- Using the oil, put the onion for 20 seconds, then the garlic for 15 seconds. Put the tomatoes after.
- Put back the pork belly, then put the coconut milk. Also, put the shrimp paste. Simmer for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Put the red chilli pepper, then simmer for 5 minutes.
- Put the coconut cream, then simmer for 5 minutes.
- Put the finger chilli, then simmer for 5 minutes.
- 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.
- 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.
- Serve it with rice and a glass of coca-cola. 😊
The thought of Bicol would send a person's imagination of images and scents of sili (chili pepper) and coconut milk. It holds a special place in the hearts of food-loving Filipinos. This Bicol Express Recipe is a flaring hot Filipino dish that is distinctly loved because of the marriage of flavors of Bicol express is also very easy to make. It is made up of pork (you can use sirloin or. Bicol Express is one of the most popular Filipino dishes, usually made of pork slices, coconut milk, and lots of chili peppers.
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