Bicol Express

Bicol Express is a dish which was named after a passenger train from Manila to Bicol. They named the dish Bicol Express because eating the dish will make you run like a train to look for water to drink. Bicol express is made up of pork cooked in coconut milk and spiced with lots and lots of wild red chili (siling labuyo) and added with shredded finger chili (siling pangsigang) that served as vegetables. Anyone who would eat the Bicol express should always ready himself with tissue or towels because anyone eating this dish will surely sweat and cry in tears because of the hot and spicy flavor.

Cooking Instruction

1/4 kilo pork, thinly sliced

1 cup wild red chili (siling labuyo)

3 cups long chili (siling pangsigang)

1 onion, minced

1 head of garlic, minced

1 cup coconut milk

1 cup coconut cream

2 tablespoons of cooking oil

Salt to taste

In a bowl of water with salt, soak chili peppers for 30 minutes then rinse and strain.

In a cooking pan, heat cooking oil and brown sliced pork for a few minutes.

In another pan, sauté minced garlic and onion.

Add to the sauté the browned pork.

Then add the coconut milk, bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes.

Add the chili peppers and cook until dish gets a little dry.

Add the coconut cream and simmer until the sauce thickens.

Salt to taste.

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