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Bowl of creamy Filipino chicken sopas with macaroni, carrots, hotdog slices, green onions, and toasted garlic

Tagalog 20 min prep · 35 min cook Easy

Creamy Chicken Sopas

Sopas na Manok

Filipino chicken sopas with macaroni, vegetables, and a creamy broth, cooked with toasted pasta for deeper flavor plus easy dairy-free options

Beef salpicao in a wok with thick seared beef strips, whole garlic cloves, toasted garlic chips, parsley, and green onions

Tagalog 25 min prep · 15 min cook Medium

Classic Beef Salpicao

Bistek Salpicao

Filipino beef salpicao—thick seared beef strips in a glossy garlic-butter sauce with whole garlic cloves, toasted garlic chips, and fresh parsley

Beef caldereta with bone-in beef chunks, potato, carrot, red and green bell pepper in thick reddish-brown sauce served with steamed rice

Fiesta Mode

Tagalog 45 min prep · 2h 30m cook Hard

Classic Beef Caldereta

Kalderetang Baka

Filipino beef caldereta—bone-in beef braised in rich tomato sauce with liver spread, peanut butter, potato, carrot, and bell pepper until fork-tender

Chicken afritada with drumsticks, potato, carrot, red and green bell pepper, and green peas in thick tomato sauce

Tagalog 35 min prep · 55 min cook Medium

Classic Chicken Afritada

Afritadang Manok

Filipino chicken afritada—seared drumsticks braised in a deep tomato-garlic sauce with potato, carrot, bell pepper, and green peas

Chicken adobo in a dark bowl with glossy sauce, garlic rice, sawsawan with chili, and steamed rice on a rustic wooden table

Tagalog 25 min prep · 45 min cook Easy

Classic Chicken Adobo

Adobong Manok

The national dish—tender chicken braised in soy, vinegar, and garlic until gloriously glazed.

Tagalog 45 min prep · 25 min cook Medium

Tapsilog

Tapsilog (Tapa, Sinangag, Itlog)

Garlic fried rice, sunny-side egg, and beef tapa marinated in a balanced sweet-salty glaze with oyster sauce—the breakfast of champions.

Tagalog 25 min prep · 55 min cook Easy

Sinigang na Baboy

Sour pork soup loaded with gabi, sitaw, okra, talong, and kangkong—real sampalok for that true asim, finished with patis for depth.

Bicolano 20 min prep · 50 min cook Medium

Laing

Laing (Ginataang Dahon ng Gabi)

Slow-cooked dried taro leaves in coconut milk with pork, bagoong, and chili—rich, creamy, and unmistakably Bicolano.

Lechon kawali crispy pork belly cubes with garlic and green onions in a bowl, lechon sauce and calamansi on the side

Fiesta Mode

Kapampangan 45 min prep · 1h 40m cook Hard

Lechon Kawali

Crispy deep-fried pork belly with blistered golden skin—marinated in a vinegar-forward blend, then boiled, dried, and fried for maximum crackle.

Tagalog 15 min prep · 5 min cook Easy

Halo-Halo

Street-style mix-mix with kaong, macapuno, sago, gulaman, ube, leche flan, and pinipig.

Filipino pancit canton with shrimp, pork, chicken, snow peas, and fried garlic

Fiesta Mode

Cebuano 30 min prep · 25 min cook Medium

Pancit Canton

Special combo with shrimp, pork, chicken, chicharo, fried garlic, and calamansi sawsawan.

Filipino kare-kare with oxtail, tripe, kalabasa, and annatto-orange peanut sauce

Fiesta Mode

Kapampangan 30 min prep · 2h cook Hard

Kare-Kare

Oxtail and tripe in achuete-orange peanut sauce with kalabasa, sitaw, and bagoong on the side.

Tagalog 30 min prep · 45 min cook Medium

Bibingka

Charred banana-leaf bibingka with salted egg, melted cheese, and fresh niyog—Simbang Gabi classic.

Ilocano 25 min prep · 45 min cook Medium

Dinuguan

Thick blood stew with pork, siling haba—classic with puto for scooping.

Tagalog 30 min prep · 25 min cook Easy

Puto

Bamboo-steamed puto with cheese, salted egg, and niyog—Biñan-style party platter.

Filipino kinilaw with cubed fish, ginger, onion, and chili

Cebuano 20 min prep · 0 min cook Easy

Kinilaw na Tanigue

Kinilaw

Cebuano kinilaw—tanigue or tuna cured in vinegar and calamansi with ginger and chili.

Filipino beef nilaga with brisket, saba, corn, and pechay

Fiesta Mode

Tagalog 20 min prep · 1h 30m cook Easy

Beef Nilaga

Nilagang Baka

Sunday nilaga—clear broth, brisket, saba, corn, beans, pechay, and patis sawsawan.

Sizzling pork sisig on a cast iron plate with egg, onions, chilies, chicharon, and garlic rice on the side

Fiesta Mode

Kapampangan 1h prep · 45 min cook Hard

Sizzling Pork Sisig

Sisig

Kapampangan sisig—pork face, ears, and cheek meat boiled, grilled for char, then sizzled with Knorr seasoning and a lola's touch of liver spread.

Lumpiang Shanghai on a white plate with sweet and sour dipping sauce

Fiesta Mode

Tagalog 45 min prep · 25 min cook Medium

Lumpiang Shanghai

Thin crispy spring rolls stuffed with seasoned ground pork—the ultimate party finger food.

Classic Filipino pork menudo with hotdog, liver, potato, carrot, bell pepper, green peas, and raisins

Tagalog 40 min prep · 50 min cook Medium

Classic Pork Menudo

Menudong Baboy

Chunky tomato stew—pork, liver, hotdog, potato, carrot, bell pepper, peas, garbanzos, raisins, and bay leaves.

Filipino pork barbecue skewers on banana leaf with garlic rice and atchara

Fiesta Mode

Tagalog 35 min prep · 20 min cook Medium

Filipino Pork Barbecue

Inihaw na Baboy (Pork BBQ)

Overnight-marinated kasim on skewers—caramel basting, garlic rice, atchara, vinegar sawsawan.

Cebuano 40 min prep · 45 min cook Medium

Chicken Inasal

Inasal na Manok

Bacolod inasal—achuete-basted leg quarter, garlic rice, atchara, soy-vinegar sawsawan.

Tagalog 25 min prep · 3h cook Medium

Bulalo

Batangas bulalo—marrow bone, rich broth, corn, pechay, fried garlic; not the same as nilaga.

Filipino turon on banana leaf with caramelized sugar crust

Tagalog 20 min prep · 20m cook Easy

Turon (Banana Lumpia)

Turon

Saba turon with shattered brown-sugar caramel crust—langka optional, banana leaf serve.

Bicolano 25 min prep · 35m cook Easy

Ginataang Gulay

Chicken and vegetables in creamy gata—kalabasa, sitaw, okra, labuyo, fried garlic.

Homemade Filipino longganisa links, caramelized on a plate

TagalogSilog Breakfasts

Homemade Longganisa

Longganisa

Garlicky-sweet links with paprika and achuete—batch, freeze, and fry like store-bought longganisa.

Tagalog 5 min prep · 20 min cook Easy

Longsilog

Sweet garlicky longganisa sausages with garlic rice and fried egg—a Sunday morning ritual.

Tagalog 30 min prep · 50 min cook Medium

Leche Flan

Silky yolk custard in a llanera with glossy amber caramel—flipped onto a platter for handaan or halo-halo.