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Bicol Express

How to Cook Recipes Bicol Express using 13 ingredients and 5 steps

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! This Bicol Express Recipe involvesf pork slices cooked in coconut milk. The outcome of this Bicol Express Recipe can be described as pork cooked in coconut milk with shrimp paste and chilies.

Bicol Express

If you cook Bicol Express the way Speedy does, you get better texture, flavor and color.

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 it.

Ingredients make Bicol Express

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

Bicol Express step by step

  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 - The dish is named after the train in the Bicol. Tiyak na masiram ang inyong pagkakan! Bili na po kayo sa Bicol Express! The thought of Bicol would send a person's imagination of images and scents of sili (chili pepper) and coconut milk. It holds a special place in the hearts of food-loving Filipinos. Pork Bicol Express is a type of Filipino spicy pork dish. Pork slices are cooked in coconut milk with Thai chili and long green peppers. Thank you and good luck