Embutido (Filipino meatloaf) Recipe

An Embutido is a generic term for sausages found in Spain, Portugal, the Philippines, and Central and South America. There are several type of embutido all over the world.

Generally, embutido contains hashed meat, generally pork, seasoned with aromatic herbs or spices (black pepper, red pepper, paprika, garlic, rosemary, thyme, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, or others) that is served wrapped in the skin of the pig's intestines

Soimai Recipe

Siomai is a Chinese dumpling dish. This popular dumpling has conquered the taste buds of the Filipinos. It is usually sold in hundreds of stalls, eateries, and restaurants all over the Philippines. One can order different kinds of siomai but the base is always pork or either beef. Traditionally cooked through steaming, siomai nowadays are also served fried complimented with soy sauce, calamansi and chili sauce.

Filipino makes different variety of soimai because of availability of the ingredients. But basically it makes use of ground pork/beef and shrimp as the main ingredients.

Bagnet (Deep-Fried Pork Meat) Recipe

In Ilocos Norte (A province in the northern part of the Philippines) a delicious and unique Vigan Bagnet is the Ilocano version of "lechon kawali" also known as Ilocano Chicharon Baboy or deep-fried pork meat. Large chunks of pork leimpo, belly or pork sides, deep fried for at least two times until crispy. It is serve with tamatis and lasuna with bagoong nga munamon. Just the thought of it makes every genuine Ilocano drool. Just be careful when cooking or deep frying this dish, expect a lot of hot oil splashing.

This dish takes few easy steps to complete and will just take you 1.5 hours to prepare.

Tortang Talong (Eggplant Omelet) Recipe


Tortang Talong (eggplant fritters or/ eggplant omelet) is a very simple Filipino dish that does take a little bit of patience to prepare, but the result is very rewarding. You will find it at just about any restaurant in the Philippines and it is very popular at Turo-Turo eateries. 

This dish is good for beginners because it only takes few easy steps to complete and will just take you less than 15 minutes to prepare.