
How To Make Bicol Express
Bicol express is a Filipino dish of pork, chili, coconut milk, and shrimp paste. It balances spicy, creamy, and savory notes perfectly.
Prep:
5 mins
Cook:
55 mins
Total:
1 hr
Ingredients
- 2 lb pork belly, sliced into strips
- 2 cup coconut milk
- 2 cup coconut cream
- ½ cup shrimp paste, bagoong alamang
- 4 garlic cloves, crushed
- 6 Thai chili pepper, chopped
- 1 ginger, thumb, minced
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 Serrano pepper, sliced
- 1 cup water, optional
Instructions
- Combine ginger, garlic, onion, Thai chili pepper, pork, and coconut milk in a pan. Mix well. Cover the pan and turn the heat to on. Let the mixture boil.
- Remove the cover. Stir. Add half of the bagoong and pour around 1 cup of coconut cream and a cup of water. Stir and adjust the heat to low. Cook until the sauce reduces to a quarter (around 50 minutes).
- Add the remaining coconut cream and bagoong alamang (as needed). Also add the Serrano peppers. Continue cooking in low heat until the sauce thickens.
- Transfer to a serving plate and serve with warm rice.
Nutrition
- Sugar: 1g
- :
- Calcium: 81mg
- Calories: 1242kcal
- Carbohydrates: 10g
- Cholesterol: 228mg
- Fat: 124g
- Fiber: 2g
- Iron: 6mg
- Monounsaturated Fat: 39g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 9g
- Potassium: 758mg
- Protein: 27g
- Saturated Fat: 68g
- Sodium: 432mg
- Vitamin A: 60IU
- Vitamin C: 13mg
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