Filipino food recipes, Philippine cuisine and the style of cooking the food associated with it have evolved over centuries from its Austronesian origins. Because of that, today its a mix of Malay, Indian, Arab, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, American. Sundry other Asian and Latin influences that have been adapted to local ingredients.
Dishes range from the simple, like a meal of fried salted fish and rice, to elegant paellas and cocidos prepared for fiestas. Popular dishes include:
Bibingka Cassava Original Leche Flan Pumpkin Leche Flan Fruity Caramel Flan Coconut Rice Turon Ube Halaya Palitaw Pianono Cascaron – bitsu-bitsu Pich Pichi Mango Cream Cake Steamed Palm Sugar Custard Yema Balls Mango Chocolate Cream Cups_ Buko Pie Brazo de Mercedes Ginataan Kutsinta Puto (Rice Muffins) Gulaman at Sago Champorado Peanut Squares Cassava Cake … Read more Philippine Desserts
Chicken and Pork Adobo Hot and Sour Shrimp with Watercress And Walnuts Pork Binagoongan Laing Menudo Crispy Pata Pancit Canton Lumpia with Sweet Potatoes Mechado (Filipino beef stew) Longganisa (filipino-style sausages) Sinigang na Sugpo Sinigang (Tamarind Soup) Lengua Embutido Siomai Inihaw Na Bangus (Grilled Milkfish) Chicken and Pork Apretada Oxtail Kare-kare Bagoong Alamang Lumpiang Sariwa … Read more Philippines Meat Dishes
Philippine cooking is surprisingly simple; no special utensils are needed. Even a wok, which is commonly used in the Philippines and is almost essential for Chinese cooking, can be done without for most Philippines dishes. No special skills are needed, either. If you can prepare American dishes, you can prepare the food of the Philippines. … Read more The Basics of Philippine Cooking
This is popular offering is a national dish of the Philippines. Before serving, it might pay to mention that peppercorns in the sauce, not everyone handles those well. The strong vinegar flavor in the sauce/gravy is counterbalanced by the pepper, soy sauce and garlic. Adobo has many regional variations and Chicken & Pork Adobo is … Read more Chicken & Pork Adobo
Filipino cuisine as we know it today is a multi-layered expression of culture and history. It has a very Malay matrix in the “native” or indigenous foods like sinigang, pinangat and pinais. It has very strong Chinese influences, as we see from everyday food like lumpia,pancit and mami. The very visible Spanish layer one sees in fiesta food like lechon, relleño and morcon; Arab and Indian … Read more French Influence on Filipino Cuisine
Pancit palabok and pancit luglug are essentially the same recipe/ dish. The main difference being that luglug uses thicker noodles… 1 pkg. noodles (thick), soaked in cold water 1 hour 1/4 c. shrimps, shelled & deveined 2 sticks Chinese sausage (dry), sliced thin 1 box tofu (soy bean cake), cut in sm. cubes 1/2 … Read more Pancit Palabok
Pork Ginataan with Squash & String Beans is a rich and delicious Filipino dish that makes use of pork, coconut milk, and vegetables such as squash and string beans. This recipe has many variations. You can do this with any meat, including seafood such as crab. Ingredients 1½ lbs. pork, cubed 1½ cup beef broth … Read more Pork Ginataan with String Beans & Squash
Philippine Cuisine Philippine cuisine has evolved over several centuries from its Malayo-Polynesian origins to a mixed cuisine with many Hispanic cultural influences, due to the many Latin American and Spanish dishes brought to the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period. It has also received varying degrees of influence from Chinese, American, and other Asian cuisine. … Read more Philippine Cuisine
ATIS Known internationally as sweetsop, sugar apple or custard apple, the Atis is one fruit you can easily grow even if you have only a square meter of soil. The atis tree grow just about anywhere a seed falls. And it grows fast so that you can get to harvest fruits in a little over … Read more Fruits of Philippines
Pork Menudo is another Filipino “stew” style recipe that incorporates pork meat and liver cubes with potatoes, carrots and tomato sauce. You can also substitute the pork with chicken, and eliminate the liver… and perhaps even add in some chickpeas (garbansos) with your mixed vegetables. Ingredients: 2 lb. pork belly, cut into cubes 1/2 … Read more Pork Menudo