Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, bicol express. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Bicol Express is pure comfort food! With pork cubes cooked in coconut milk and chili peppers, it's rich, creamy, spicy and delicious! Serve with steamed rice for a hearty and big flavored meal!
Bicol express is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Bicol express is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have bicol express using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Bicol express:
- Make ready 1 1/2 cubed pork shoulders
- Make ready 1 onion diced
- Get 3 cloves garlic (minced)
- Make ready 1 serrano pepper/labuyo (or more accdg to spice preferences)
- Take 3 tbsp shrimp paste
- Prepare 1 cup coconut milk
Bicol Express is a spicy pork stew cooked in coconut milk which is definitely one of the most Bicol Express has it's funny, if not weird, name from the train that travels the Naga(Bicol)-Manila route. Bicol Express is a Filipino dish of browned pork cooked with finger chilies and coconut cream. If you cook Bicol Express the way Speedy does, you get better texture, flavor and color. Bicol express is a spicy Filipino stew consisting of bite sized pieces of pork with chilies, coconut milk, shrimp paste (bagoong), onions, tomato and garlic.
Instructions to make Bicol express:
- Sauté pork shoulder on a pan set on high heat with continuous mixing until fat browned and fat is rendered. Remove excess oil.
- Add garlic cook until browned and onions until transluscent.
- Add shrimp paste and mix until incorporated with ingredients.
- Pour coconut milk and let it simmer for 5 mins before adding chili. (this is to make sure that the spice is evenly distributed to the ingredients).
- Continue mixing until sauce thickens depending on your preference. (Some like it with a little sauce, I like it a bit dry.) Don't it will taste great just the same.😊
- Best served with white steamed rice. Enjoy.
The dish is named after the train in the Bicol. It's a Filipino dish consisting of bite sized pork with chilies. Bicol Express, as the name implies is a specialty dish from the Bicol region. It is a dish suited for those who love their food hot. Some Bicolanos sauté hot chili peppers and nothing else and enjoy this.
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