Bicol Express

Here’s more Filipino recipes for you to try out! This dish – Bicol Express, honestly I have not had or I might have – but it might be called another name (from another dialect).  The description for this type of dish = Bicol Express – vegetables & chili peppers cooked in coconut milk – hot!

So, if you like a bit of spice in your life and like the heat or for some of you its not too hot, then do give it try and let us know what you thought of it and what kind of variation to make it your own! Thanks to Filipino Recipes. 🙂

Bicol Express Recipe

Estimated preparation time: 30 minutes

Estimated cooking time: 30 minutes

• 1/4 kilo pork, thinly sliced

• 1 cup Baguio beans

• 3 cups long chili or jalapeno peppers

• 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, Baguio beans and cook until dish gets a little dry.

• Add the coconut cream and simmer until the sauce thickens.

• Salt to taste.