Simple Way to Prepare Any-night-of-the-week Bicol express

Bicol express. Bicol Express is the ultimate 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!

When onion is slightly cooked, add pork. Boil until water is almost gone and pork is completely cooked. This Bicol Express Recipe is a flaring hot Filipino dish that is distinctly loved because of the marriage of flavors of coconut which is an abundant agricultural product in the Bicol region and chilies which are also evident in every Bicolanos diet. You can have Bicol express using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Bicol express

1. You need 1 1/2 of cubed pork shoulders.
2. You need 1 of onion diced.
3. Prepare 3 cloves of garlic (minced).
4. Prepare 1 of serrano pepper/labuyo (or more accdg to spice preferences).
5. You need 3 tbsp of shrimp paste.
6. You need 1 cup of coconut milk.

Bicol express is also very easy to make. 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 region of the Philippines, known for its spicy food. Bicol Express is a popular Filipino dish in which the slices of pork meat is cooked with coconut milk, shrimp paste, and chili pepper.

Bicol express instructions

1. Sauté pork shoulder on a pan set on high heat with continuous mixing until fat browned and fat is rendered. Remove excess oil..
2. Add garlic cook until browned and onions until transluscent..
3. Add shrimp paste and mix until incorporated with ingredients..
4. Pour coconut milk and let it simmer for 5 mins before adding chili. (this is to make sure that the spice is evenly distributed to the ingredients)..
5. Continue mixing until sauce thickens depending on your preference. (Some like it with a little sauce, I like it a bit dry.) Don't it will taste great just the same.😊.
6. Best served with white steamed rice. Enjoy..

There's a belief that this dish was adapted from a Bicolano dish called "Gulay na may Lada", meaning 'vegetable with chili'. Bicol express is a spicy Filipino stew consisting of bite-sized strips of pork meat with chilies, coconut milk, shrimp paste, onions, tomato and garlic. The first time I tried this was when my mom served this for the first time to our eatery's loyal customers. Probably the most Bicol recipe all over the country is Bicol Express, a pork dish simmered in coconut milk, coconut cream, shrimp paste, and of course, chillis known for its sour and spicy flavor with a creamy consistency. The flavor and texture of the dish is absolutely delicious, if you can stand the heat of course.