Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, bicol express. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Bicol Express is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Bicol Express is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

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!

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have bicol express using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Bicol Express:

1. Make ready Main ingredients
2. Get 800 grams Pork belly(diced or long square strips)
3. Prepare 1/2 cup Dried shrimps(tiny or baby shrimps)
4. Make ready 4 Chili fingers(Julienned)
5. Take 6 clove Garlic(Minced)
6. Prepare 1 Red onion(chopped)
7. Prepare 2 cup Coconut extract/Gata(Evaporated)
8. Get 1 cup Coconut extract/Gata(Condensed)
9. Make ready 1 Salt
10. Prepare 1 Freshly ground black pepper
11. Get Alternatives for dried shrimps
12. Get 3 tbsp Bagoong Alamang(Shrimp paste) or….
13. Make ready 1 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 spicy Filipino stew consisting of bite sized pieces of pork with chilies, coconut milk, shrimp paste (bagoong), onions, tomato and garlic. The dish is named after the train in the Bicol. Bicol Express is a Filipino dish of browned pork cooked with finger chilies and coconut cream.

Steps to make Bicol Express:

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.

If you cook Bicol Express the way Speedy does, you get better texture, flavor and color. It's a Filipino dish consisting of bite sized pork with chilies. 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.

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