Recipe: Appetizing Bicol Express

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!

Cely Kalaw in her Manila restaurant. THE TASTIEST & SPICIEST BICOL EXPRESS (exact ingredients below) BICOL EXPRESS is a popular Filipino dish. It is a spicy food made of pork, chilies. You can cook Bicol Express using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Bicol Express

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

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. 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, known natively in Bikol as sinilihan (lit. spiced with chili), is a popular Filipino dish which was popularized in the district of Malate, Manila but made in traditional Bicolano style.

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..

As unique as the region it comes from, Bicol Express is easily the most popular Bicolano dish. Bicol is always associated with spicy food. 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. Bicol Express, as the name implies is a specialty dish from the Bicol region.