Filipino Food 101: Recipes to Get You Started
Filipino Food 101: Recipes to Get You Started
Ingredients
Rice
- garlic
- rice
Soups and Stews
- soy sauce
- white sugarcane vinegar
- black peppercorns
- bay leaf
- garlic
- tamarind fruit
- tamarind leaves
- unripe guava
- calamansi
- green mango
- tomato
- kamias
- long beans
- radishes
- taro
- eggplant
- cabbage
- okra
- pork
- oxtail
- tripe
- pounded toasted rice
- peanuts
- peanut butter
- annatto
- patis
Pulutan
- shrimp
- sweet potato
- cabbage
- squash
- green papaya
- scallions
- carrots
- bean sprouts
- garlic
- chiles
- pork ears
- pork cheeks
- pork snout
- pork organs
- soy sauce
- calamansi juice
- mayonnaise
- pork belly
- vinegar
- lechon sauce
- raw fish
- vinegar
- citrus juice
- dungon
- tabon-tabon
- coconut milk
- diced sweet mango
Instructions
- 1
Pairing leftover cooked rice with an egg gives you the building blocks for silog, a popular breakfast staple of which there are endless variations.
- 2
To make the meal more complete, cooks add a salty protein, such as slices of fried Spam to make Spamsilog, tapa (cured beef) for tapsilog, corned beef for cornsilog (my personal favorite), or crispy bacon for bacsilog.
- 3
Add dabs of bagoong alamang or ginisang bagoong to your plate so that the sauce, bagoong, and rice mix together as you eat

