Japchae (Korean Glass Noodles) Recipe

Since every Filipino is easy to adapt to any environment, especially in foods that they are eating. Here in our country (Philippines), Korean restaurant is like a mushroom that sprouting everywhere, especially in an urbanized area. Every time I have a chance to visit Korean restaurant with my friends and family, there is a menu that I always looking for.

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.

Adobong Kangkong (Water Spinach Adobo) Recipe

Adobong kangkóng is a vegetables dish usually sautéed in cooking oil, onions, garlic, vinegar, and soy sauce.  It is usually served as a side dish and with steamed white rice. This recipe can be used to cook other vegetables as alternative like eggplant, spinach, cabbage, string beans or any other vegetable.

Laing Recipe (Taro Leaves with Coconut Milk)

Laing Recipe, also known as Ginataang Gabi is equally famous and tasty as the Bicol Express. The dish’s main ingredients are taro stem and leaf cooked in coconut milk and shrimp paste. It is also heavily spiced with red hot chilies. In other provinces especially in Northern and Central  Luzon, they add freshwater snails (susong pilipit) or Kuhol (escargot) as substitute.

Kalderetang Kambing (Goat kaldereta) Recipe

Kaldereta Kambing (Goat Kaldereta or goat meat in tomatoes sauce) is one of the meat dishes every Filipino has come to love. It is a specialty of  Central and Northern Luzon as favorite pulutan and is a requisite during fiestas and special occasions. You can always find it in the menus of authentic Filipino restaurant. 

Variations of this dish is with beef, chicken and or pork. Beef Kaldereta is a common dish in the Philippines made with stewing cuts of beef simmered until tender. Another is with chicken or pork because of the price and availability.

Pork Binagoongan with Gata (Coconut milk ) Recipe

Pork Binagoongan "Pork with shrimp paste" is an authentic Filipino recipe. This recipe is easy to prepare, tenderized pork is sauteed and cooked with the fermented shrimps. The shrimp paste has the most dominant flavor. In order to balance the salty taste, vinegar, along with sugar and coconut milk/cream are added.

Beef Mechado Recipe

Beef Mechado image from frommomachie Beef Mechado is a type of stew with tomato sauce. Mechado is one of the favorite dishes among Filipino home as part of weekly menu or on occasion and gatherings. Aside from beef, other meat like pork and chicken can be substituted for it, also they liver for more flavored taste. This dish is somewhat similar to other Filipino dishes such as the Kaldereta (caldereta), Estofada (or Estofado), and as well as the Afritada because of the base ingredient used (which is tomato sauce).

Bicol Express Recipe

Bicol Express Image from dessertcomesfirst  Bicol Express is a famous dish which originated in Bicol Region of the Philippines. It is pork strips and green finger peppers ("siling haba" or "siling pamaksiw" in tagalog) cooked in coconut milk. Bicol Express is very rich and very spicy.   Bicol express in the Philippines have different versions, some  include ginger, some include turmeric, some include bagoong or shrimp paste and other use sea food ( tuna, shrimp, mussel and squid) instead of pork.   In Thailand they have their own version of bicol express  and they called it "siamese"

Totsong Bangus (Milkfish In Fermented Tofu with Black Beans) Recipe

Totsong Bangus (Milkfish in fermented tofu with black beans) Totsong Bangus or (milkfish in fermented tofu (soy cake) with tausi ) is one of the popular fish dish of the Filipino which is chinese in origin. Basically Totsong Bangus is consist of salted black beans (tausi), tofu, mixed in a fried bangus fish( milkfish). This dish is best partnered with hot rice during lunch and even at dinner time.

Sizzling Pork Sisig Recipe

Sizzling Pork Sisig Sisig also known as Sizzling sisig, a Filipino dish made from parts of pig’s head and liver, usually seasoned with calamansi juice or lemon juice and chili peppers.The dish is said to have originated from local residents who bought unused pig heads from the commissaries of Clark Air Base in Angeles City, Pampanga. Pig heads were purchased cheap since they were not used in preparing meals for the U.S. Air Force personnel stationed there. An alternate explanation of its origin is that it is but an innovative variation on an older recipe, which is pork ears and jowl, boiled, chopped then marinated.

Pancit Malabon Recipe

Pancit Malabon Pansit Malabon is a flavorful noodle dish that originated in the City of Malabon, Philippines. This dish resembles like the Pancit Palabok but the array of seafood toppings and the traditional tough and thick rice noodles distinguishes this dish. With the exception of the rice noodles used and the cooking procedure.

La Paz Batchoy Recipe

Authentic La Paz Batchoy of Iloilo La Paz Batchoy is a noodle soup made with pork organs, crushed pork cracklings, shrimp, vegetables, chicken stock, chicken breast, beef loin and round noodles. Its origins can be traced to the district of La Paz, Iloilo City in the Philippines, hence it is oftentimes referred to as La Paz Batchoy. This dish has that distinct salty, sweet and spicy flavor that is only uniquely Ilonggo.

Batangas Lomi Recipe

Lomi or Pancit Lomi is a Chinese-Filipino noodle dish made with a thick variety of fresh egg noodles of about 5 mm or half a centimeter in diameter, sautéed with small pieces of pork or chicken meat, liver and select vegetables, added with tasty broth and then thickened by cassava flour and beaten eggs. Because of its popularity at least in the eastern part of Batangas, there are as many styles of cooking lomi as there are eateries, panciterias or restaurants offering the dish. They served several toppings are added prior to serving such as chicharon (crispy pork skin) and hard boiled egg. Variations in recipes and quality are therefore very common.

Pancit Canton Recipe

Pansit Canton

Pancit Canton or "pansit kanton" is very much a part of Filipino cuisine even it has originated in Chinese cuisine, Basically, pancit canton is a stir-fried dish composed of egg noodles, meat, poultry or seafood and a medley of vegetables.

Bucatini all’Amatriciana Recipe

Bucatini all’Amatriciana

Bucatini all’Amatriciana is typically Roman pasta dish, traditionally made with guanciale, a red version of spaghetti alla gricia, where the influence of Neapolitan cuisine appears with the use of tomato. While the original recipe comes from the town of Amatrice (now in the Lazio region but before in the Abruzzo region), it is in Rome where people eat bucatini with this sauce. But in Amatrice, sugo all’amatriciana, which means sauce in the Amatrice style, is almost always served with spaghetti. Actually Amatrice claims the invention of spaghetti.

Kung Pao Chicken Recipe

Kung Pao Chicken

Kung Pao is a cooking technique originated from the Sichuan province of China; the authentic Sichuan Kung Pao Chicken (宫保鸡丁) or Gong Bao Ji Ding calls for the staple Sichuan peppercorn for the numbing flavor, however, the version popular outside of Sichuan has since been adapted to many regional variations.

Bopis Recipe

Bopis Bopis or Bopiz in Spanish is a hot and spicy Filipino dish with Spanish origin, it consists of pork lungs, heat and fat sautéed in chillies, onions and sometimes tomatoes. It was surprisingly tender, perhaps because the heart was diced into small pieces. Rice vinegar, soy sauce, tomato, white radish and pineapple juice make up the sauce. The dish is nicely balanced with acidic and savory notes. Not just a popular dish but also a very popular "pulutan" (analogous english term "finger food") and can be seen in menus of bars and restaurants offered usually as a beer match.

Bistek Tagalog (Beef Steak) Recipe

Bistek Tagalog (Beef Steak) Filipino version Bistek Tagalog is the Filipino version of the Beef Steak. It is comprised of thinly sliced beef slowly cooked in soy sauce and lemon juice and onions and garnished with caramelized onion rings. This simple yet great tasting recipe does not require much ingredients and the procedure is not complicated at all. Just have all the ingredients present, You have your deliciously cooked Bistek.

Chicken Afritada Recipe

Chicken Afritada Chicken Afritada is also known as "Apritadang Manok" in tagalog. Afritada is one of those tomato sauce based stews that many Filipinos believed have been introduced in the Philippines by the Spaniards. Chicken Afritada is so popular and loved by many Filipinos.This recipes is popular because it is delicious and an easy-to-make homestyle dish, it may look similar to Menudo and Caldereta (also Filipino dishes) but it is totally different in terms of taste.

Pork - Chicken Adobo Recipe

Prok - Chicken Adobo Adobo is the most popular Filipino dish enjoyed by all classes. Typically pork or chicken, or a combination of both, is slowly cooked in vinegar, cooking oil, crushed garlic, bay leaf, black peppercorns, and soy sauce, and often browned in the oven or pan-fried afterward to get the desirable crisped edges. Adobo is typically served with steamed white rice.