Filipino home cooking is built on a few bold flavours — vinegar, soy, garlic, coconut milk and sour fruit — and almost none of it needs special equipment. These are the dishes that actually get cooked on a weeknight in a Filipino kitchen, from adobo and sinigang to pancit and merienda sweets.
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Mac and Cheese
This is a Filipino style no bake Mac and Cheese you can make in the comfort of your home.
Mocha Float
This is a personal Recipe of mine, Mocha version of the famous 'Mango Float' but with a twist of mocha flavor. Hope you enjoy making this one for your love ones.
Garlic Shrimp
Buttery garlic shrimp in a creamy tomato sauce with sweet corn and melted cheese. A fast Filipino-style shrimp dish that comes together in about 25 minutes and is best eaten over hot rice.
Filipino style Carbonara
This is my own version of a creamy and cheesy Carbonara. This Recipe is a Tuna Carbonara, but you can change tuna with Chicke, Beef, etc.
Maja Blanca
A classic Filipino coconut pudding set with cornstarch and sweet corn. Maja Blanca is a four-step dessert made from store-cupboard tins, chilled until firm and sliced into squares.
Chicken Papar (Pia-paran)
is an authentic meranao cuisine that's tasty and spicy at the same time. Mostly found in the island of Mindanao, specifically Marawi City, Iligan City, and Cagayan de Oro City.It has a unique taste thats both creamy and spicy at the same time, the chicken together with the spices beautifully blends together topped with generous amount of grated coconut meat, making it both eccentric and lusciously mouthwatering.
Scallop W/ Fried Fish
yummy buttery scallops paired with crispy fried fish. A fast and easy to make. this meal is best during the rainy seasons but also do well mostly in any seasons. its up to you... Enjoy cooking!
Garlic Chicken
Authentic asian cuisine that is salty and sweet,the crunchiness fried chicken mixes well with the caramelised sauce and crispy garlic bits,best served with steamed rice. This Recepi is easy to make and the ingredients super cheap and you may already have it in your home.. Enjoy cooking.
Chicken Adobo
The Philippines' national dish and the first thing most Filipino cooks learn. Chicken braised in vinegar, soy and garlic until the sauce turns dark and glossy - it genuinely improves overnight.
Pancit Canton
The birthday noodle. Filipino superstition says long noodles mean a long life, which is why no celebration table is ever without a platter of this.
Chicken Tinola
A clear ginger broth with chicken and green papaya. The lightest thing in the Filipino repertoire, and what gets cooked when somebody in the house is unwell.
Chicken Afritada
A Filipino tomato stew of chicken, potato and bell pepper. Afritada is the gentlest of the Filipino tomato braises - no chilli, no sourness, just a sweet-savoury sauce that children eat happily.
Beef Caldereta
Rich Filipino beef stew in tomato and liver spread, with olives and cheese stirred through at the end. The party dish - it is what gets cooked when there is something to celebrate.
Arroz Caldo
Filipino chicken and ginger rice porridge, finished with toasted garlic, spring onion and a squeeze of calamansi. What gets cooked when it rains, or when somebody is ill.
Chicken Inasal
Bacolod-style grilled chicken, marinated in calamansi, lemongrass and ginger, then basted with annatto oil until it turns deep orange. Best eaten with rice and a dipping sauce.
Ginataang Manok
Chicken simmered in coconut milk with ginger, green papaya and chilli leaves. A gentler cousin of the spicier coconut dishes from the south, and a one-pot dinner.
Filipino Bistek
Bistek Tagalog - thin beef steaks in soy and calamansi, smothered in soft onion rings. Four ingredients doing all the work, and one of the quickest Filipino dinners there is.
Palapa
The Maranao condiment from Mindanao: native scallion bulbs, ginger, chilli and toasted coconut pounded into a fiery relish. A spoonful goes beside rice, grilled fish or chicken.
Beef Kulma
A mild Maranao beef curry in coconut milk and ground peanuts, scented with turmeric and lemongrass. Gentler than rendang, and usually served at gatherings alongside rice.
Chicken Kagikit
Maranao shredded chicken sauteed with palapa, turmeric and coconut. Kagikit means shredded - the chicken is boiled, pulled apart by hand, then fried hard so the edges crisp.