Filipino Cuisine & Recipes

Typical Filipino Dishes

Appetizers

• Lumpia (Filipino eggrolls)
• Tokwa't Baboy (Pork & tofu cubes in salty-sour sauce)
• Ukoy (Shrimp & sweet potato fritters)

Soups & Stews

• Caldereta (Beef stew)
• Dinuguan (Pork blood stew)
• Kare Kare (Oxtail & tripe stew)
• Mechado (Beef stew)
• Menudo (Pork liver stew)
• Pochero (Chicken & vegetable stew)
• Tinolang Manok (Ginger chicken soup with papaya)

Noodles

• Pancit Bihon (Rice noodles with meat & vegetables)
• Pancit Canton (Egg noodles with pork & vegetables)
• Pancit Malabon (Noodles with shrimp sauce)

Poultry

• Adobong Manok (Chicken in vinegar sauce)
• Apritada (Chicken & potatoes in tomato sauce)
• Chicken Relyeno (Boneless stuffed, rolled chicken)
• Pinaupong Manok (Chicken steamed on a bed of salt)
• Sinampalukang Manok (Chicken with tamarind leaves & sprouts)

Meats

• Ampalaya con Carne (Beef & bitter melon in black bean sauce)
• Bistik (Beef & potatoes in a sour-salty sauce)
• Bola Bola (Meatballs)
• Bopis (Minced pork heart & lungs)
• Caldereta (Beef stew)
• Embutido (Baked chicken & pork roll)
• Kilawin (Pickled pork snouts)
• Lechon (Roast suckling pig)
• Pork Adobo (Pork in vinegar sauce; see Adobong Manok recipe)
• Paksiw na Lechon (Pork in liver sauce)
• Tocino (Pork sausage)

Fish & Seafood

• Daeng na Bangus (Curried milkfish)
• Relyenong Bangus (Stuffed milkfish)
• Sarsiado (Fish with tomatoes, peppers & peas)

Vegetables & Beans

• Ginataang Langka (Jackfruit stewed in coconut milk)
• Pinakbet (Simmered eggplant, okra & bitter melon)

Breads & Grains

• Goto (Rice gruel with tripe)
• Rice

Sauces

• Lechon Sauce (Pork liver sauce)

Desserts

• Bibingka (Cassava custard)
• Biko (Sweet coconut rice)
• Ginataan (Sweet potato, fruit & rice in coconut cream)
• Halayang Ube (Purple yam)
• Halo-Halo (Mixed fruit, beans and coconut)
• Kutsinta (Brown rice cakes)
• Leche Flan (Caramel custard)
• Maja Blanca (Dense coconut cake)
• Palitaw (Coconut cookies)
• Puto (Rice muffins)
• Turon (Fried banana rolls)

Beverages

• Gulaman at Sago (Gelatin with pearl tapioca)