Filipino dishes are very simple to cook and it's always pleasure to serve and eat. The recipes mostly consist of vegetables, seafood, dairy, meat and rice. They are always enriched with flavor and colors.
Filipino recipes are very much influenced by the recipes of other cuisines. For instance, they have adapted the noddles from Chinese, rice and meat dishes from Spaniards, spaghetti from Italians and fast food from Americans. But the distinct quality of Filipino dishes lies in the fact that these dishes are presented with Filipino touch. In short, one can say the Filipino cuisines are the epitome of delicacy.
In this article, I have shared few Filipino dishes which you can try making in your own kitchen. The instructions given here will help you to to know the essence of Filipino cooking. Just try them out to have some quality time with your family on weekends.
Igado: a very popular North Philippines recipe, it is prepared from pork tenderloin plus pig's innards like liver and heart. While making the igado, it is very important that the ingredients such as liver and heart should be clean. And if the kidney is used, then you should soak it in salt water for atleast 15 minutes after slicing them.This will reduce the odor.
Bulalo: a light colored soup prepared mostly with beef shanks and beef marrow. Seasoning plays the key role in the making bulalo. You can use patis, bay leaves or even garlic along with the salt and pepper. Bulalo is a simple cattleman's stew, best made in a large cauldron with whatever vegetables are growing near by.
Dinengdeng: being a famous Ilocano dish, it mainly consists of vegetables such as jute leaves, the leaves of the horseradish tree, fruits of the bitter melon, amaranth leaves, sweet potato tubers as well as leaves, mushrooms like oyster mushrooms along with wild potatoes.
Insarabasab: it is an authentic pork Filipino recipe which has been originated from the Province of Ilocos. While preparing the dish, pork has to be roasted on open fire until the pink color of the meat gets removed.
Pinipig Crunch: it is very similar to puffed rice or rice krispies- something similar to what we get in a bar of Nestle Crunch. It is prepared from a special kind of rice.
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