Filipino
Bicol Express (Pork in Coconut Chili Sauce)
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Bicol Express (Pork in Coconut Chili Sauce) is Filipino home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Heat the oil in a pot and sear the sliced pork until browned, about 6 minutes.
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Add the garlic, onion, and ginger and cook until softened, about 4 minutes.
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Stir in the shrimp paste and sliced chilies.
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Pour in the coconut milk, season with salt, and simmer until the pork is tender and the sauce thickens, about 20 minutes.
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Serve hot.
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Serve it with
A Filipino dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Bicol Express (Pork in Coconut Chili Sauce), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Bicol Express (Pork in Coconut Chili Sauce) carries shellfish and coconut. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | Yes | Adobong Baboy (Pork Adobo) |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | Yes | Adobong Baboy (Pork Adobo) |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 690 kcal
- Protein
- 13 g
- Carbs
- 5 g
- Fat
- 69 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 730 mg
- Saturated fat
- 32 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Bicol Express (Pork in Coconut Chili Sauce) takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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