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.

Humba (Braised Pork Belly) Recipe

Humba is a sweet pork dish is popular in the southern parts of the Philippines and is considered as one of the delicacies of the region somewhere in Visayas and Mindanao. Pork belly, pork hocks, and pork ham are the 3 most common pig parts used to make this delightful masterpiece. In this Filipino pork dish, the traditional way of cooking humba is to slowly simmer of pork belly in a mixture of pineapple juice, tausi (salted black beans), vinegar, dark brown sugar, garlic, onions, peppercorns, dried banana blossoms and oregano.