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 cook Bicol Express using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Bicol Express

  1. Prepare of Main ingredients.
  2. It's of Pork belly(diced or long square strips).
  3. You need of Dried shrimps(tiny or baby shrimps).
  4. It's of Chili fingers(Julienned).
  5. Prepare of Garlic(Minced).
  6. It's of Red onion(chopped).
  7. Prepare of Coconut extract/Gata(Evaporated).
  8. It's of Coconut extract/Gata(Condensed).
  9. It's of Salt.
  10. You need of Freshly ground black pepper.
  11. Prepare of Alternatives for dried shrimps.
  12. It's of Bagoong Alamang(Shrimp paste) or.....
  13. It's of Patis(Fish sauce).

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. 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..

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.