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Ilocano Filipino Recipes

Ilocano food is practical, bold, and deeply rooted in preserving, boiling, frying, and using every part well.

3 recipes in this collection.

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Ilocano Ulam (Main Dishes)

Dinuguan

Dinuguan at Puto

Ilocano pork blood stew with pork belly, liver, siling haba, and vinegar—thick, glossy, and meant for scooping with puto.

Ilocano Gulay & Vegetables

Pinakbet

Pinakbet (Pakbet)

Ilocano pinakbet with ampalaya, eggplant, okra, squash, and bagoong—a vegetable ulam that is bitter, savory, and deeply Filipino.

Two deep orange Ilocos empanadas with crispy bubbled crust on a wooden plate, garnished with parsley, with a ramekin of spiced vinegar and chili on the side

Ilocano Merienda & Kakanin

Empanada Ilocos

Empanada ng Ilocos

Ilocos empanada—crisp orange rice-flour shells filled with longganisa, bean sprouts, egg, and papaya; the Vigan street food fried golden and eaten wit