10 popular Filipino Main Dishes – Must Try Classics

10 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. Filipino dishes aren’t just ‘food’…

Chicken Leg Hamonado – A Savory, Tangy, Sweet Chicken Ham

Chicken Leg Hamonado – A Savory, Tangy, Sweet Chicken Ham

This Chicken Leg Quarter Hamonado Filipino style is made with just a minimal amount of ingredients. Chicken seared then sautéed with garlic and onions, then basted in a savory marinade made of soy sauce, pineapple juice, sugar, black pepper. Simmered and cooked till golden brown and delicious! This beloved dish combines tender juicy chicken legs,…

Soy Fried Chicken – Easy, Crispy, and Flavorful

Soy Fried Chicken – Easy, Crispy, and Flavorful

Soy fried chicken is a Chinese dish rich in umami and has become a popular favorite among chicken lovers and enthusiasts of Asian flavors. The dish typically features crispy and juicy chicken leg quarters that have been marinated in a mixture of soy sauce, ginger, garlic, and other aromatic ingredients. What sets Chinese-style soy fried…

Chicken ala King – A Classic Comforting Dish

Chicken ala King – A Classic Comforting Dish

Chicken ala King is a scrumptious chicken dish that’s popular Philippines. Tender cooked chicken enveloped in a deliciously rich creamy mushroom sauce packed with vegetables. This makes this dish the perfect cozy dinner meal to serve with a side of baked potatoes, rice, toasted bread, or even pasta. It’s also a delicious filling to add…

Icebox cake (with just 2 ingredients) – A No Bake Summer Favorite

Icebox cake (with just 2 ingredients) – A No Bake Summer Favorite

This Icebox cake (with just 2 ingredients) is an easy no-bake summery treat that’s so easy even kids and beginner home cooks can make. Pre-made store brought cakes, arranged to layer with whipped cream, and finally sprinkled with some chocolate chips and chilled overnight. Ready to be consumed by you and your housemates as a…

Chicken Bistek – Savory, Tender, Juicy Chicken

Chicken Bistek – Savory, Tender, Juicy Chicken

Chicken Bistek is a classic Filipino dish that’s usually made with beef slices or chunks. But in this case, we’ll be using chicken. This Chicken Bistek is a flavor bomb of a dish. Made of chicken marinated in soy sauce, calamansi, garlic, peppercorns, and pepper. Separated from the marinade, cooked until tender, then simmered with…

Buko Pandan Ice Candy – A Deliciously Vibrant Summer Snack

Buko Pandan Ice Candy – A Deliciously Vibrant Summer Snack

Buko Pandan Ice Candy is a popular chilled popsicle like snack in the Philippines. This flavor of ice candy combines the creaminess of the coconut and the aromatic sweetness of panda. A quick to make treat that just needs to be chilled overnight to enjoy. Treat yourself with this refreshingly delicious chilly treat this summer!…

Sizzling Bulalo

Sizzling Bulalo

The sizzling bulalo is a scrumptious beef dish, where beef steak or beef shanks seared on both sides, boiled till tender in a broth, then it is mixed and flavored with butter, pepper, flour, a beef cube, simmered and thickened to an aromatic gravy ready to be poured over the beef shank placed o a…

Low-Carb Bibingka

Low-Carb Bibingka

Low-Carb Bibingka is a low carb version of bibingka is made by coconut flour, all purpose flour, eggs, baking powder, butter, vanilla, salted eggs, cheese strips and equal sugar-less to reduce the energy intake. With the use of alternative ingredients, this bibingka tastes and feels like the classic bibingka but with lower carbohydrate content to…