How to Prepare Appetizing Bicol Express

How to Prepare Appetizing Bicol Express Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Bicol Express. 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!

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THE TASTIEST & SPICIEST BICOL EXPRESS (exact ingredients below) BICOL EXPRESS is a popular Filipino dish.

It is a spicy food made of pork, chilies.

You can cook Bicol Express using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Bicol Express

1. It’s 1 of kilo pork belly.

2. It’s 4 cloves of garlic (minced).

3. You need 1 of red onion (sliced).

4. You need 2 of tomatoes (sliced).

5. Prepare 4 cups of coconut milk.

6. Prepare 1 cup of coconut cream.

7. You need 3 tbsp. of Shrimp paste.

8. Prepare 1 of Red chilli pepper (sliced).

9. Prepare 3 of Finger chilli (sliced).

10. It’s to taste of Salt & pepper.

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 Filipino dish of browned pork cooked with finger chilies and coconut cream.

If you cook Bicol Express the way Speedy does, you get better texture, flavor and color.

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.

Bicol Express step by step

1. Heat the pan. Put the pork belly and wait for its water to drain out and it's oil to come out. Make sure the pork has a light brown colour..

2. Remove the pork from the pan, but leave its oil..

3. Using the oil, put the onion for 20 seconds, then the garlic for 15 seconds. Put the tomatoes after..

4. Put back the pork belly, then put the coconut milk. Also, put the shrimp paste. Simmer for 10 to 15 minutes..

5. Put the red chilli pepper, then simmer for 5 minutes..

6. Put the coconut cream, then simmer for 5 minutes..

7. Put the finger chilli, then simmer for 5 minutes..

8. Uncover the pan and let the coconut milk evaporate until the sauce thickens. The thickness of the sauce depends on how you want it served..

9. If its too bland, add salt and pepper. You might also add shrimp paste to help. If it's not that spicy, put more chilli..

10. Serve it with rice and a glass of coca-cola. 😊.

The dish is named after the train in the Bicol.

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.