Recipe: Perfect Bicol express

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Bicol express. 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 THE TASTIEST & SPICIEST BICOL EXPRESS (exact ingredients below) BICOL EXPRESS is a popular Filipino dish. It is a spicy food made of pork, chilies. 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. You can cook Bicol express using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Bicol express

  1. You need of cubed pork shoulders.
  2. Prepare of onion diced.
  3. You need of garlic (minced).
  4. Prepare of serrano pepper/labuyo (or more accdg to spice preferences).
  5. It's of shrimp paste.
  6. Prepare of coconut milk.

Named after the train that travels between Manila and Bicol, this popular Bicolano dish will make you reach for water faster than the bullet train. 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.

Bicol express step by step

  1. Sauté pork shoulder on a pan set on high heat with continuous mixing until fat browned and fat is rendered. Remove excess oil..
  2. Add garlic cook until browned and onions until transluscent..
  3. Add shrimp paste and mix until incorporated with ingredients..
  4. 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)..
  5. 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.😊.
  6. Best served with white steamed rice. Enjoy..

The dish is named after the train in the Bicol. 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. Filipino recipes and Filipino dishes in general aren't that known for its use of spices or for being hot spicey dishes unlike its neighboring Southeast Asian countries.