Philippines recipes
Recipes from Philippines: home cooking with cultural background, ingredient substitutes and step-by-step instructions.
Filipino Spaghetti: Sweet Banana Ketchup Sauce with Red Hot Dogs
Filipino spaghetti layers the sweet tang of banana ketchup over tomato sauce, then adds red hot dogs and cheese for a celebration platter. Covers browning the meat, reducing the sauce, pasta texture, substitutes, storage and reheating, with precise quantities.
Kare-Kare: Filipino Oxtail Stew in Peanut Sauce
Kare-kare is the Philippines' oxtail and peanut stew. This home-kitchen recipe covers choosing oxtail or beef shank, unsweetened peanut butter, annatto, bagoong and its substitutes, cooking the vegetables separately, storage and reheating, and what to serve with it.
Kinilaw: Filipino Raw Fish Dressed in Coconut Vinegar and Citrus
How to make Filipino kinilaw at home: sashimi-grade white fish dressed with coconut vinegar, calamansi or lime, ginger and red onion. Covers how long the acid should work on the fish, regional styles, a coconut milk version, safe handling and substitutes.
Monggo (Ginisang Munggo): Filipino Mung Bean Soup with Pork
How to make monggo, the Filipino mung bean soup: rinsing dried mung beans, sautéing pork with garlic and tomato, seasoning with patis, substitutes for malunggay, timing the greens, chicharon, pressure-cooker shortcuts, reheating and storage.
Pancit Bihon: Filipino Celebration Rice Noodles with Shrimp and Chicken
A 4-serving pancit bihon guisado made with thin dried rice vermicelli. Learn the order for letting the noodles absorb broth, what patis and calamansi do, heat control that keeps the noodles from breaking, substitutes, storage, and why long noodles appear at Filipino birthdays.