Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, bicol express. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Bicol Express is the ultimate 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! actually bicol express was first cook and eaten in tutuban train station, was invented by some kainan there and cely kalaw must have copied it from there! sa karindirya lang naimbento po ang bicol express by mistake ng taong alang pangalan. tapos pinangalanan ng bicol express base on the train "bicol express". peace.

Bicol Express is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Bicol Express is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook bicol express using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Bicol Express:

1. Prepare Main ingredients
2. Make ready 800 grams Pork belly(diced or long square strips)
3. Take 1/2 cup Dried shrimps(tiny or baby shrimps)
4. Take 4 Chili fingers(Julienned)
5. Make ready 6 clove Garlic(Minced)
6. Prepare 1 Red onion(chopped)
7. Make ready 2 cup Coconut extract/Gata(Evaporated)
8. Get 1 cup Coconut extract/Gata(Condensed)
9. Take 1 Salt
10. Take 1 Freshly ground black pepper
11. Prepare Alternatives for dried shrimps
12. Make ready 3 tbsp Bagoong Alamang(Shrimp paste) or….
13. Prepare 1 Patis(Fish sauce)

Bicol Express is a type of Filipino stew that makes use of coconut milk and coconut cream. Traditional Bicol Express recipe involves the use of pork as the main ingredient. Fatty pork cuts such as pork belly and pork shoulder are preferred. These are cooked by boiling in coconut milk along with chili peppers and spices.

Steps to make Bicol Express:

1. In a pan, sauté the garlic and onions.
2. Add the pork belly and stir fry for a couple of minutes.
3. Add 2 cups of coconut extract(evap) and dried shrimps(or other alternatives) then bring to a boil and simmer in medium heat for 20 minutes or until the coconut extract had reduced to a thick oily gravy.
4. Add the chillies and a cup of coconut extract(condensed) and continue to simmer for 10 minutes.
5. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Bicol express got its name from the train that would travel from Manila to Bicol In those days before air conditioned buses were in existence. Thanks for that great info about the history of bicol express Ms Solita. The original Bicol Express Recipe is a stew made from long chilies also known as birds eye chili (siling mahaba in Tagalog), coconut milk, shrimp paste or stockfish, onion, pork, and garlic. It is said to have evolved from Gulay na may lada, another Bicolano dish which is nowadays presented as one of the many variants of Bicol Express. Bicol Express is a popular Filipino dish in which the slices of pork meat is cooked with coconut milk, shrimp paste, and chili pepper.

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