"Cooking Lesson #6: How to Cook Bicol Express [My Version]"
What’s up steemians! Before I’ve shifted to writing more about science, I’ve been also blogging about cooking and foods. In fact, I have this cooking series before where I share my own way of cooking different Filipino dishes such as adobo.
It is comprised of 5 episodes and the most recent one was published about 4 months ago. Now to continue that series, here’s my own version of Bicol Express for our Cooking Lesson #6 by your chef next door, @asbonclz. Haha!
By the way, I am not really an expert of this; I am just a self-proclaimed master of the kitchen hahaha. If you have any comments and suggestions, you can drop them on the comment section below. Would also love to see the foods you personally cook.
What is Bicol Express?
Bicol Express
If you've been following my blog, you'd probably have learned that Bicol Express is one of my all-time favorite Filipino dishes! Bicol Express is made by cooking pork meat with coconut milk and shrimp paste added with a lot of chili and pepper.
I don’t personally like shrimp paste so I wouldn’t use any on my version. This dish popularly known for being so spicy, but it doesn’t have to be spicy; it all depends upon your own satisfaction and desires. Haha!
What are the ingredients?
This dish will of course, require you pork meat about 1 or 1/2 kilo. Meat near the stomach are the best for this. Then you'll need to cut theminto small pieces or bite size or any preferred sizes.
Then of course you'll need spices such as ginger, onions, garlic and chili. You may use as many chili peppers, it really depends upon your tastes and satisfaction, just don't let the spiciness spoil its flavor. Then you'll need to clean up those and then slice it accordingly.
Since I did not find any coconut milk being sold nearby, I used this Knorr Ginataang Gulay mix. It's an all in one powdered coconut milk mix.
You just need to dissolve the powder in hot water first before mixing it into our meat. Like this photo below. That's not a milk, that's what happened after I dissolved the powder in hot water.
You need to dissolve the powder well to avoid thickening after being added to the pork meat. And of course if you don't want to eat concentrated powder.
The Procedure
First, fry the fats of the pork meat using its own oil. You may also add small amount of cooking oil if you want. Again it all depends on you. Wait until it turn into light brown. Set aside the meat then saute the ingredients.
Saute the ingredients beside the meat. Before, I usually cook the garlic first then the onion but now, I don't really care about the order. But anyway, here's the order.
First, garlic and onions,
then ginger,
then the chili pepper,
You can always experiment and come up with your own version though. Just saute and mix all the ingredients with the pork meat.
Add water, wait for about 10 to 15 minutes or until it boils. Check its meat if it is already soft, tender and juicy! You don't want to eat a rubber-like meat. You can also add salt if you want. I heard salt helps meat softens a bit faster than usual.
After it boils and right after its meat softens, add the dissolved coconut powdered milk into our mixture. Stir and mix it well to homogenize the mixture. Wait 5 to 10 minutes or until the soup thickens a bit.
Our Bicol Express is ready. I did not added paste shrimp because I don't like it. Below is the photo I took right after it was cooked. I did not have the chance to transfer it because I was so hungry already hahaha!
If you want to read my previous cooking blog (the episode 5), then CLICK HERE.
You will also find a link to Lessons 1-4 there. Thank you!
One of my fave bahalag halang.
Dili ra kaayo ni halang sab kay di pud ko ganahag halang kaayo haha.
i love bicol express... and i really miss it 😂 huhu
Hi idol! Hindi ka makaka luto dyan?
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My fav food:-)
Same hahaha!
pahingi @asbonclz 😊 looks yummy. Para mas happy ang tummy...
Sure, kain tayo @heartsky hehe, kaso ubos na yan kanina pa :D
follow and upvote.i saw your dish and bicol express is one of the the dish that i'm cooking way back when i was in the Philippines. i like people with passion in cooking. kindly follow back as i would love to see more of your cookings. thanks.
Thanks man :)
you made it look so simple :)
My version is really simple hahaha.
yay! kalami ani! ... naa nakoy alternative dah pag walay lubi heheh.. kay pag mag luto ko permi ma pending kay way lubi na gikagod ..kani kay maka burak ra dretso.
Dzaah ang dakog kalubin-an walay lubi sus maulaw ta hahahahaha...
Hhahaha samoka anang kalubihan uy..di man to amo gud sako ra lolo 😅😅😅
Bisan pa, naa japon kay bahin ato hahahaha!!
Panghatag pd uy. Bsag isa lang pd hahaha
Puhon mag luto ko napud ko utro hahaha
yawards favorite nako ni bai! pero dapat naa ang shrimp paste hehehe
naa ko na try ani sa bicol nga naay pineapple bai ka try ka ?
Wala ko kabalo anang pineapple bai hahaha di sab ko nahan ana, pero sulayan nako shrimp paste. Hahaha parat man gud kaayo.
Wa ko kasulay pineapple bai hahaha lainan kos lasa ana isagol sa pagkaon bai oy hahaha.
ang ako nahibal.an sa bicol express kay puros sili na gsagolan ug baboy. haha
Ahahaha basta ing-ana rana siya pag luto tikoy.
ang baboy ang side dish, sili ang main ingredients. tagay daun. hastang lamia. haha
Ahww oo, naka-kaon mig ing-ana sa Hukad, tingala ko puros ra sili walay karne ahhahaha gi-ahak lage..
hahaha. daghan uso in.ana na style sa ilonggo.
lami.a gud...charap lantawon imu luto luto brad...samot na cguro kung maghatag ka...hahaha...:D
Hahaha salamat brader. Mo laag man daw kag Iligan ingon si Paul, taga-e nya kog hiniktan diha hehehe.
Sarap daming sahog. :)
Salamat ups, gusto mo pala maraming sahog, same here! Haha
Without tasting it,from mere observation it will be a delicious meal.
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I love spicy foods like bicol express. But don't know how to cook it. But now I will try your version. Thanks for sharing.
You can always experiment though. Cooking really varies depending on your own taste. Just make sure that the meat softens hahaha.
Makagutom lage ni. Nice post! @asbonclz.
Hehehe mangaon diay @hazelwink :)
Salamat hehe @asbonclz sulay pud kog luto ane kay cge rakog palit sa karenderya kay di ko kebaw muluto ane haha
Hahaha practice nalang kag luto. Daghan tutorial sa youtube. Friends man diay ta sa FB hahaha! Murag kaila ko nimo, classmate man guro tag P.E. sauna.
Small world 😂 hahaha gi ma'am pajud tika no? Kaila nako nimu hahahahaha classmates ta sa PE badminton man ata to 😂😂
Mao lagee hahaha! Gamay jud kayong Iligan hahaha! Gi-add diay tuod tika sa GC sa messenger.
@asbonclz need this desperately