Bicol Express Recipe
Did you know that bicolanos coconut milk or gata is the most popular ingredient in Bicol region's cuisine. Bicol Region(Region V) is composed of Albay, Masbate, Sorsogon, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur and Catanduanes. Bicolanos cuisine is famous for its rich and spicy dishes, which is cooked using coconut milk or gata with very hot local variety of chilli called siling labuyo (green and red). Well known bicolano specialties are bicol express, pinangat called gabi leaves, ginataang langka called young jackfruit.

Bicol Express Ingredients:
1/4 kilo pork, thinly sliced

3 cups long hot chili (red and green)

1 onion, minced

1 head of garlic, minced

1 cup coconut milk

2 tablespoons of cooking oil

Salt to taste

Bicol Express Cooking Instructions:

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.