Tagalog
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 optio
Recipe collection
Rainy Day Comfort Food
When habagat rain hits, Filipino kitchens turn to broth, rice, and gentle steam. These recipes are built for blankets, windows fogged with soup, and extra rice on the side.
How to serve this collection
- Keep patis-calamansi on the table for soups and nilaga.
- Arroz caldo and sopas are easiest for sick days or light appetites.
- Sinigang and bulalo need more time—start those pots early.
Tagalog
Arroz Caldo
Aroskaldo
Golden Filipino arroz caldo with shredded chicken, ginger, kasubha, and toppings of toasted garlic, green onion, egg, and calamansi.
Tagalog
Ginisang Munggo
Ginisang Munggong Habol
Thick Filipino ginisang munggo with crispy pork belly, malunggay, chicharon, and toasted garlic—served with rice and patis-calamansi sawsawa
Tagalog
Sinigang na Baboy
Sinigang na Baboy sa Sampalok
Sour pork belly soup with gabi, labanos, sitaw, okra, talong, kangkong, and real sampalok—served with patis, calamansi, and siling labuyo on
Tagalog
Sinigang na Salmon
Sinigang na Salmon Belly sa Sampalok
Sinigang na salmon belly in steaming sour tamarind broth with kangkong, tomatoes, and labanos—rich, light, and the rainy-day ulam that beats
Tagalog
Sinigang na Hipon
Sinigang na Hipon sa Sampalok
Filipino sinigang na hipon with head-on prawns, tamarind broth, gabi, eggplant, sitaw, kangkong, and siling haba—a steaming sour soup for ri
Tagalog
Sinigang na Baka
Sinigang na Baka sa Sampalok
Filipino sinigang na baka—tender beef in sour sampalok broth with radish, kangkong, and tomatoes; the beef sinigang search after pork, shrim
Tagalog
Beef Nilaga
Nilagang Baka
Sunday nilagang baka—clear beef broth with brisket, saba, corn, potatoes, green beans, and pechay; patis sawsawan...
Tagalog
Bulalo
Bulalo ng Batangas
Batangas bulalo—cross-cut marrow bone and shank in rich broth with corn, pechay, and fried garlic; scoop marrow with...
Tagalog
Lomi
Lomi (Mami Batangas)
Loaded lomi—thick miki in dark starchy pork gravy with braised pork, liver, kikiam, halved hard-boiled egg, big chicharon curls, and calaman
Tagalog
Beef Pares
Beef Pares (Sabaw at Kanin)
Authentic beef pares—tender braised beef in sweet-savory star anise broth with garlic fried rice; the street-food legend from Manila's China
Tagalog
Champorado
Champorado (Tsokolate at Kanin)
Filipino champorado—creamy chocolate glutinous rice porridge with tablea, served with dried fish; the rainy-morning breakfast Filipinos defe
Tagalog
Ginataang Bilo-Bilo
Ginataang Bilo-Bilo (Bilo-Bilo sa Gata)
Ginataang bilo-bilo with ube and white sticky rice balls, sago, langka, and kamote in creamy coconut milk—the rainy-afternoon merienda that'