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Budget Ulam Recipes

These dishes use pantry staples, vegetables, and smaller meat portions so you can feed a family without a fiesta budget. Use My Prices on each recipe to match your local market.

How to serve this collection

One ulam plus rice is enough for weekday dinner—do not overcook too many dishes.
Munggo and ginataang gulay are strong meat-stretchers with vegetables.
Leftover adobo becomes tomorrow's silog with garlic rice and egg.

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

Classic Chicken Adobo

Adobong Manok

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

Filipino pork adobo with pork belly in dark glossy sauce, bay leaves, peppercorns, fried garlic, and green onion

Pork Adobo

Adobong Baboy

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Bowl of thick Filipino ginisang munggo topped with crispy pork belly, chicharon, toasted garlic, and malunggay, served with rice and patis sawsawan

Ginisang Munggo

Ginisang Munggo

Filipino ginataang gulay with chicken, kalabasa, and coconut milk

Ginataang Gulay

Ginataang Gulay

Bicol-style ginataang gulay—chicken and vegetables in creamy coconut milk with kalabasa, sitaw, okra, labuyo...

Giniling na baboy in a bowl with ground pork, diced potatoes and carrots, green peas, red bell pepper, and quail eggs in tomato sauce, served with steamed rice

Giniling

Giniling na Baboy

Pork menudo in a shallow bowl: glossy tomato sauce coating pork cubes, hotdog rounds, potato, carrot, green and red bell pepper, peas, garbanzos, and raisins; wooden spoon on linen napkin

Classic Pork Menudo

Menudong Baboy

Learn pork menudo with uniform cubes, tomato sauce, hotdog, liver, potato, carrot, bell pepper, peas, garbanzos, and raisins—party-style Fil

Bowl of Filipino pancit bihon with golden rice noodles, shredded chicken, cabbage, carrots, and snow peas

Pancit Bihon

Pancit Bihon

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