Recipe: Delicious 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 have Bicol Express using 8 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Bicol Express

  1. It's of pork.
  2. You need of garlic chopped.
  3. You need of onion chopped.
  4. You need of Green Finger chilies sliced thinly then chopped.
  5. You need of Thai chilies chopped.
  6. You need of Coconut milk.
  7. You need of Shrimp paste.
  8. You need of Water.

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 instructions

  1. Heat oil and saute garlic and onion until fragrant then cook Pork until light brown..
  2. Sprinkle black pepper and stir add water reduce until little liquid is left add 1tbsp shrimp paste and chilies stir..
  3. Add Coconut milk simmer until reduced and thick then turn off heat serve with hot Rice..

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.