20 Popular Filipino Main Dishes – Must Try Classics
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20 Popular Filipino Main Dishes – Must Try Classics

While Filipino dishes seem to go over the radar by many who usually go for other more popular Asian dishes. It still stands its ground and is steadily gaining popularity due to social media, especially due to the ingredients like ube, the desserts like leche flan, halo-halo, and many more. These 20 popular Filipino Main…

Stir-fry Green beans with Pork Belly – A colorful healthy meal
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Stir-fry Green beans with Pork Belly – A colorful healthy meal

Stir-Fry Green Beans with Pork Belly is a deliciously easy dish that’s packed with a lot of flavor. A mouthwatering dish only takes around 10 minutes more or less to make! To create these green beans stir fry, cook chopped pork belly, garlic, onions, black pepper, soy sauce, water, bell peppers, green beans, and oyster…

Chicken Menudo Recipe – A one pan Filipino-Spanish chicken dish
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Chicken Menudo Recipe – A one pan Filipino-Spanish chicken dish

This Chicken Menudo Recipe is a Filipino chicken delicacy mixed with Spanish influences. The dish is made of tender chicken simmered in a savory tomato-based sauce loaded with onion, carrot, potatoes, hot dogs and some spices. A very filling meal that’s healthy, savory, affordable and the perfect family meal for those wanting a quick dish…

Ginataang Langka: Creamy Unripe Jackfruit in Coconut Milk
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Ginataang Langka: Creamy Unripe Jackfruit in Coconut Milk

Ginataang Langka is a cherished Filipino dish made from tender unripe jackfruit simmered in rich coconut milk. Enhanced with aromatic garlic, onions, and a hint of spice from chili, this dish offers a perfect balance of creamy and savory flavors. Whether enjoyed as a main dish or a side, Ginataang Langka is a comforting addition…

Chicken Caldereta Recipe – “Kalderetang Manok”
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Chicken Caldereta Recipe – “Kalderetang Manok”

Chicken Caldereta, or Kalderetang Manok, is a classic Filipino dish known for its comforting flavors. Chicken pieces are marinated in soy sauce, calamansi juice, and black pepper, then sautéed and simmered in a rich stew of garlic, onions, tomato paste, liver spread, tomato sauce, and seasonings. Potatoes, carrots, bell peppers, and chilies round out this…

Pork Shrimp Shanghai – Crispy, Flavorful Filipino Spring Rolls
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Pork Shrimp Shanghai – Crispy, Flavorful Filipino Spring Rolls

Pork Shrimp Shanghai also known as “Pork and Shrimp Lumpiang Shanghai” combines the deliciously appetizing siomai with the crisp and delicious lumpia. A Filipino take on the usual Chinese Pork and Shrimp Siomai recipe. All you need to make the savoy mixture are peeled shrimps, mixed with ground pork, spring onions, garlic powder, salt, pepper,…

Ginisang Repolyo with Atay – Stir-fried Cabbage with Chicken Liver
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Ginisang Repolyo with Atay – Stir-fried Cabbage with Chicken Liver

Ginisang Repolyo with Atay which translates into “Sautéed Cabbage and Liver” is an interestingly easy and healthy dish is made by cooking chicken liver, cabbage, garlic, onions, salt and pepper, oyster sauce, soy sauce, calamansi juice, and bell peppers. A savory and nutritious meal that you can find many Filipino families make for lunch or…

Special Binagoongan Baboy – Pork Sautéed in Shrimp  Paste
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Special Binagoongan Baboy – Pork Sautéed in Shrimp Paste

Special Binagoongan Baboy or Pork Binagoongan, is a dish that’s packed full of flavor even when it’s just made of a few ingredients. A perfect balance of salty, tangy, and savory, all this dish needs are pork belly, eggplants, onion, garlic, tomatoes, shrimp paste, and an optional chili for a bit of spice. This creates…

Igado Recipe – A Filipino (Ilocos) Pork and Liver Dish
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Igado Recipe – A Filipino (Ilocos) Pork and Liver Dish

This Igado Recipe (igado meaning; ‘liver’ from the Ilocos Region of the Philippines. Which is also the most featured ingredient in the dish)  is one of the most well-known Ilocano recipes that really showcases the pork meat and pork liver. An aromatic dish made of pork chunks, pork liver, soy sauce, calamansi juice, pepper, garlic,…

Vegetable Lumpia (Lumpiang Gulay)
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Vegetable Lumpia (Lumpiang Gulay)

Vegetable Lumpia or Lumpiang Gulay is a popular Filipino vegetable spring roll. The simple lumpia contains a scrumptious mixture made with fried tofu, ground pork, carrot, green beans and other spices. These are wrapped in a lumpia wrapper and sealed with a corn starch slurry. Fried until these look like crisp golden bars. Served with…