Filipino cuisine rests on a Malay and Austronesian base, built around rice, tropical fruit, coconut and seafood, layered over centuries with Chinese trading influence from around the eleventh century, more than three hundred years of Spanish colonial rule, and American influence following the Spanish American War. No single flavor dominates, and family and regional recipes for the same dish vary widely. The cuisine includes the food traditions of more than a hundred ethnolinguistic groups across the archipelago, with the most widely known dishes drawn from Ilocano, Pangasinan, Kapampangan, Tagalog, Bicolano, Visayan, Chavacano and Maranao culinary practices.
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Signature TechniqueSouring and preserving dishes with vinegar, a technique that predates Spanish contact and that Spanish colonizers later named after their own adobar marinade. 1 Origin RegionThe Philippine archipelago, maritime Southeast Asia. 2 Connections
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Chinese and Japanese traders reaching the archipelago from around the eleventh century contributed stir fried noodles that became pancit and dumplings that became lumpia.
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More than three hundred years of Spanish colonization introduced fiesta foods, wheat pastries and a name that came to be attached to the pre existing native vinegar cooking technique, adobo.
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Coconut, Ingredients Coconut milk is central to many Filipino dishes.
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Filipino cuisine (Wikipedia)
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Filipino cuisine includes the food traditions of more than a hundred ethnolinguistic groups across the Philippine archipelago.
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America's Test Kitchen- Uses Ingredient: Garlic
- Uses Ingredient: Black Pepper
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Filipino Cuisine
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Sisig ( Tagalog pronunciation: ['sisig]) is a Filipino dish made from pork jowl and ears (maskara), which is usually seasoned with calamansi, onions, and chili peppers.
View the Source Lumpia (Wikipedia)
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Lumpia (in Indonesian and Filipino) are various types of spring rolls commonly found in Indonesian and Filipino cuisines.
View the Source Bicol express (Wikipedia)
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is a common Filipino dish which was popularized in the district of Malate, Manila, but made in traditional Bicolano style.
View the Source Wikipedia, Tortang talong
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Tortang talong, also known as eggplant omelette, is an omelette or fritter from Filipino cuisine made by pan-frying grilled whole eggplants dipped in an egg mixture.
View the Source Silog (Wikipedia)
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Silog is a class of Filipino breakfast dishes containing sinangag (garlic fried rice) and itlog ("egg"; in context, fried egg "sunny side up").
View the Source Carne norte guisado (Wikipedia)
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Carne norte guisado, also known as corned beef guisado, is a Filipino dish made from shredded canned corned beef (carne norte) sautéed with onion.
View the Source Tortang Carne Norte (Wikipedia)
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Tortang carne norte, also known as corned beef omelette, is an omelette or fritter from Filipino cuisine made by pan-frying an egg and shredded canned corned beef (carne norte) mixture.
View the Source Filipino spaghetti (Wikipedia)
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Filipino spaghetti (also known as sweet spaghetti) is a Filipino adaptation of Italian spaghetti with Bolognese sauce.
View the Source Igado (Wikipedia)
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Igado also known as dinaldalem is a Filipino pork dish characterized by its savory and slightly tangy flavor and is typically prepared using pork tenderloin combined with pork offal, such as liver, lung, kidney, heart, and intestines.
View the Source Chicken inasal (Wikipedia)
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Chicken inasal, commonly known simply as inasal, is a Visayan variant of the Filipino chicken dish lechon manok.
View the Source Humba (Wikipedia)
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Humbà, also spelled hombà, is a Filipino braised pork dish from the Visayas, Philippines.
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Pares (Tagalog pronunciation: [paˈɾɛs]), also known as beef pares, is a term for a serving of Filipino braised beef stew with garlic fried rice, and a bowl of clear soup.
View the Source Tibok-tibok (Wikipedia)
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Originating in the Philippine province of Pampanga, it is especially popular in Cagayan.
View the Source Banana cue (Wikipedia)
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Banana cue or bananacue is a popular snack food or street food in the Philippines.
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Hopia, (Tagalog: [ˈhop.jɐʔ]; Chinese: 好餅; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hó-piáⁿ; lit. 'good pastry' - the name it is known by in the Philippines) pia or bakpia (Javanese: ꦧꦏ꧀ꦥꦶꦪ, romanized: bakpia; Chinese: 肉餅; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bah-piáⁿ; lit. 'meat pastry'- the name it is known by in Indonesia) is a popular Indonesian and Philippine bean-filled moon cake-like pastry originally introduced by Fujianese
View the Source Goto (food) (Wikipedia)
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Goto, also known as arroz caldo con goto, is a Filipino rice and beef tripe gruel cooked with ginger and garnished with toasted garlic, scallions, black pepper, and chicharon.
View the Source Sapin-sapin (Wikipedia)
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Sapin-sapin is a layered glutinous rice and coconut dessert in Philippine cuisine.
View the Source Kalamay (Wikipedia)
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Kalamay (also spelled calamay, literally 'sugar') is a sticky sweet that is known in many regions of the Philippines.
View the Source Mango float (Wikipedia)
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Mango float or crema de mangga is a Filipino icebox cake dessert made with layers of graham cracker crust, whipped cream, condensed milk, and ripe carabao mangoes.
View the Source Paelya (Wikipedia)
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Paelya (Tagalog: [pɐˈʔɛːl.jɐ]) or paella (Spanish) is a Philippine rice dish adapted from the Valencian paella.
View the Source Pichi-pichi (Wikipedia)
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Pichi-pichi, also spelled pitsi-pitsi, is a Filipino dessert made from steamed cassava flour balls mixed with sugar and lye.
View the Source Kiampong (Wikipedia)
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Kiampong, also spelled as kiampung or kiampeng, is a Filipino glutinous rice casserole.
View the Source Fish Sauce (Wikipedia)
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It is one of the most important ingredients in Filipino cuisine.
View the Source Mango Sticky Rice (Wikipedia)
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Bangladeshi, Cambodian, Filipino, Lao, Malaysian, Northeast Indian, Thai.
View the Source Yellow rice (Wikipedia)
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Yellow rice is a traditional yellow-colored rice dish in Iranian, Middle East, Moroccan, Ecuadorian, Peruvian, Caribbean, Portuguese, Filipino, Afghan, Indian, Sri Lankan, South African and Indonesian
View the Source Nutribun (Wikipedia)
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Nutribun, also referred to as Nutri-bun or Nutriban, is a bread product used in elementary school feeding programs in the Philippines to combat child malnutrition, initially as part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)'s Food for Peace program from 1971 to 1997, and later as part of the child health programs of various Philippine cities.
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