Burong Kapampangan (Tag-ilo) Recipe

"Tag-ilo" or "Tagilo" is a local name for Burong Kapampangan's, it is originated in the culinary capital of the Philippines, the province of Pampanga. It is a dipping sauce made from fermented rice and freshwater fish (like mud fish, catfish, tilapia) or shrimp. It is best combined with grilled, roasted or fried fish, fresh mustard and steam or boiled vegetables like okra, eggplant, and ampalaya).

Pork Sinigang (Sinigang na Baboy) Recipe

Pork Sinigang or "Sinigang na Baboy" or pork stew, it is sour and savory taste most often associated with tamarind (sampalok) popular in the Philippines and is related to the Malaysian dish "Singgang". 

Red Salted Duck Egg (Itlog Na Maalat) Salad Recipe

Salted duck egg was originated and influenced by the Chinese and later on it became a part of every Pinoy foods.

The popular method for processing salted eggs in the Philippines is by mixing clay, rock salt, and water. The fresh eggs are individually dipped and stored in two weeks, then boiled.

Salted duck eggs are normally boiled or steamed before being peeled and eaten as a condiment to congee or cooked with other foods as a flavoring. The egg white has a sharp, salty taste. The orange-red yolk is rich, fatty, and less salty.

Making salted duck egg salad is one of the best recipes because it is very simple, easy to prepare and budget-friendly.  It is also a perfect match with fried fish, grilled pork, longganisa and steamed or fried rice.

In this recipe, we made a twist by adding chilies to make it spicier and the saltiness of the red eggs is balanced by the pickled garlic, tomatoes, and onions.

Salted Duck Egg with Tomato Salad

Good for serving 3-4 persons

Prep time 15 mins

Cook time N/A

Total time 15 mins

Ingredients:

• 4 pcs. red salted (duck or chicken) eggs
• 1 pc. big red onion, thinly sliced
• 3 tablespoons of lime or calamansi juice
• 3 pcs. tomatoes, chopped
• 2 pcs of bird's eye chili (siling labuyo)
• 1 small sized cucumber, chopped into small pieces 
• 2 spring onions finely chopped
• pinch of ground black pepper 
• pinch of sugar (optional)

Procedures:

1. Removed the shell of the eggs, then cut into wedges. 
2. Place them on the serving plate or bowl
3. Put a red onion, tomatoes, cucumber, spring onions and ground black pepper
4. Add sugar, lime/calamansi juice and, chilies according to taste and then mix.
5. Best serve with rice and grilled or fried fish, Tapa or Tocino 
6. Share and Enjoy!

Suam na Mais or Ginisang Mais with Bangus (Corn Soup with Milkfish) Recipe

"Suam na Mais" is a classic and authentic Filipino style corn soup with creamy freshly grated corn and verdant chili leaves. Suam na mais or ginisang mais traditionally uses a native sticky variety of white corn. To make the dish the corn kernels are grated straight from the cobs.

Sinigang na Maya-maya sa Miso (Snapper Fish in Miso and Taramind Soup) Recipe

Sinigang na Maya-maya sa Miso is another version of sinigang dish soup with additional seasoning, the miso.

Miso is a traditional Japanese seasoning produced by fermenting rice, barley and or soybeans with salt and the fungus.

Pork Binagoongan (Pork with Shrimp Paste) Recipe

Pork Binagoongan is an authentic and simple Filipino recipe made out of tender pork dressed with shrimp paste (bagoong alamang). In this recipe by adding vinegar and sugar, will balance the dominant salty taste of bagoong in the dish.

Halayang Ube (Purple Yam Jam) Recipe

Halayang Ube or Purple Yam Jam, is the most popular dessert made from ube. This Filipino recipe is usually served on special occasions like fiestas, Christmas, weddings and birthdays.

The process for this yummy dessert is pretty simple but it does need a bit of patience in mixing on the pan until all the liquid has incorporated into the yam and it’s thick and sticky. The texture is a little chewy and creamy, and the flavor of the ube should stand out.

Nilagang Baboy (Boiled Pork with Vegetables) Recipe

Nilagang Baboy - consider as one of the comfort food of every Filipino family during rainy and cold season. The yummy hot soup taste of the dish from the pork, vegetables and herbs gives more relaxing and enjoyable eating time. This is simple and easy to prepare, it's just boiled the meat into water until tender and add the selected vegetable of your choice.

Champurrado Recipe (Sweet Chocolate Rice Porridge)

Champurrado recipe or sweet chocolate rice porridge is a Filipino version to distinguish it from the Mexicans' Champurrado which is a real thick hot chocolate and spice drink. This dish is popular Filipino breakfast or snack specially during cold weather, and often served hot with Tuyo (Salted Dried Fish). This is made from glutinous rice, cocoa powder, sugar and milk to make it creamy.

Bangus Belly in Sinigang sa Bayabas

Bangus Belly na Sinigang sa Bayabas (Stewed Milkfish Belly in Guava)  is one of the variety in cooking sinigang using different souring ingredients like taramind (sampalok), sour apple or cotton fruit (santol) , bilimbi fruit or averrhoa (kamias) and etc.

Procedure in cooking for this recipe is almost the same to other sinigang, the only different is the preparation of the main ingredient. Bangus belly or any fish and meat use in sinigang sa bayabas is by putting salt into meat and leave for about 2 hours to overnight to catch the natural saltiness of the meat and the sweet and sour taste of the guava that gives additional flavor of the dish.

Homemade Pork Tocino Recipe

Tocino is typical meat sliced into thin strips cured in anise wine, annatto, water, salts sugar and saltpeter mixture, stacked in a separate container,and covered and kept refrigerated for about three days to cure.  But the original tocino is marinated only with salt, sugar, and saltpeter.

In Spanish, Tocino is bacon, made from the pork belly, and some other countries in Caribbean, is made from pork fatback and neither cured nor smoked and fried until very crunchy. 

Ginataang Kuhol (Escargot in Coconut Milk) Recipe

Ginataang Kuhol is consider as one of the exotic dishes in the Philippines especially in Central and Southern part of island of Luzon because of its main ingredient the Kuhol. Kuhol is a edible snails, or in French call them escargot. The said dish is typically cook in coconut milk, ginger and hot chili pepper.

Several restaurant in the country served Ginataang Kuhol as one of favorite appetizer and fingerfood with cold beer. At home typically served it with hot steamed rice during lunch.

Chicken Inasal Recipe

Chicken Inasal is an Ilonggo dish from the islands of the Visayas in Philippines. Inasal is skewered chicken grilled over hot coals, marinated and basted with achuete oil, and served with chili-spiked vinegar.

Try this recipe that meld in your mouth with every voracious bite of the bird’s moist meat with the lush layers of citrus, vinegar, lemongrass, garlic, and ginger.

Filipino Style Spaghetti Recipe

Filipino Style Spaghetti is made of red spaghetti sauce ingredients like tomato sauce or banana ketchup with red hotdogs and ground pork or beef. Aside from the color of spaghetti, unique blend of tastes - a balance of sweetness, saltiness and spiciness may consider that is why many Filipino especially kids like this recipe and always served during Christmas, birthday, fiesta, or any celebration even in simple gathering.

Bulalo Recipe (Beef Marrow Stew)

Bulalo Bulalo is a light colored soup that’s made rich by cooking beef shanks and beef marrow bones for hours, until much of the collagen and fat has melted into the clear broth. This delightful beef soup is specialty in the Southern Luzon region especially in Batangas province. It is considered to be one of the most favorite main dishes in the Philippines. Because of the popularity of this bulalo, restaurants, food court in a mall, carenderias and eateries along the hi-way serving this beef soup.

Pork Hamonado Recipe

Pork Hamonado Here's another special Filipino dish that usually served during Christmas season specially "Noche Buena" and other special occasions in the Philippines the Pork Hamonado. This dish is simply sweetened pork stuffing of carrot, pineapple, pickles, sausages or hot dog in pineapple sauce.

Beef Morcon Recipe

Morcon is a beef roll stuffed with various things that could include, depending on the cook, sausages or hot dogs, eggs, pickles, pimiento and pork fat. This is Filipino popular dish served during special occasions like Christmas, new year, or feast day, and other celebrations. Try this Morcon recipe...

Pinoy Style Homemade Sardines in Tomato Sauce

According to the historian the word Sardines are named after Sardinia, the Italian island where large schools of these fish were once found. In the Philippines has a  local name for this kind of fish, they called it "tamban". While sardines are delightful enjoyed fresh, they are most commonly found canned, since they are so perishable.

Adobong Tahong (Green Mussels Adobo) Recipe

Adobo is a very well known delicious recipe in the Philippines even in Filipino community all over the world. Normally, the main ingredient using in this dish is chicken or pork or combination of the two (chicken and pork), cut into bite pieces. It is first sauted in garlic and onion and when tender enough, you add pepper, soy sauce and vinegar (depending to your taste and the quantity of meat), and then put to boil, then simmer till you have a pastry sauce.

Chicken Binakol ( Chicken in Coconut Soup)

Chicken Binakol is a chicken soup similar to Tinola but instead of using ordinary water, this chicken soup based is cooked on sweet young coconut water (buko). Binakol have two variations of this dish: first  is the Batangas version; wherein they usually use a very flavourful and lean chicken meat from native chicken and cooked slowly for long period in a bamboo tube. The another one is the Visayan version specially in Aklan province; wherein it is cooked with lemongrass and simmered in a coconut shell.