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.

Sardines with Misua and Patola Soup Recipe

Turn canned sardines in tomato sauce to a simple and easy but delicious soup dish.

In this recipe, you can use any brand of sardines as long as it is in a tomato based sauce. And misua is a very thin flour noodles originated from China. Misua can be cooked with beef, pork, egg, and chicken. You can also add some vegetables like upo (bottle gourd) sayote and patola for a healthy dish in just one bowl, but in this dish I used patola for additional flavor.

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.

Gotong Batangas (Tripe and Innards Soup) Recipe

Gotong Batangas is simply refers to tripe soup. of course it is originated in the province of Batangas in the southern part of island of Luzon, Philippines. 

Goto ng Batanags is not a typical goto with rice and thick broth (rice porridge). This dish is consist of spicy soup with lots of innards like of tripe, cow’s skin, intestines, liver, tongue, blood and beef simmered and seasoned with onions, garlic, ginger, pepper and salt. 

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.

Papaitan or Pinapaitan Recipe

The name Papaitan is derived from the Filipino root word "pait" which means "bitter". This dish is famous is a famous Ilocano soup dish mostly composed of beef or goat innards. The bitter taste of this soup dish comes from the bile, the bitter juice extracted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder to aid digestion. Papaitan popularly served those who love drinking liquor, and one of the specialty in many carinderias and restaurants in the north of the Philippines even in the metro.