Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, bicol express. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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!

Bicol Express is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Bicol Express is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have bicol express using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Bicol Express:

1. Get Main ingredients
2. Get 800 grams Pork belly(diced or long square strips)
3. Make ready 1/2 cup Dried shrimps(tiny or baby shrimps)
4. Take 4 Chili fingers(Julienned)
5. Take 6 clove Garlic(Minced)
6. Take 1 Red onion(chopped)
7. Take 2 cup Coconut extract/Gata(Evaporated)
8. Get 1 cup Coconut extract/Gata(Condensed)
9. Take 1 Salt
10. Make ready 1 Freshly ground black pepper
11. Make ready Alternatives for dried shrimps
12. Make ready 3 tbsp Bagoong Alamang(Shrimp paste) or….
13. Prepare 1 Patis(Fish sauce)

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.

Instructions to make Bicol Express:

1. In a pan, sauté the garlic and onions.
2. Add the pork belly and stir fry for a couple of minutes.
3. Add 2 cups of coconut extract(evap) and dried shrimps(or other alternatives) then bring to a boil and simmer in medium heat for 20 minutes or until the coconut extract had reduced to a thick oily gravy.
4. Add the chillies and a cup of coconut extract(condensed) and continue to simmer for 10 minutes.
5. Add salt and pepper to taste.

The dish is named after the train in the Bicol. 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. How to cook the famous Bicol Express.

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