Philippines cuisine demonstrates unmistakably that the islands have been, over the years, visited by traders and colonisers from both East and West. The most lasting impact was made by the Spanish, and on formal occasions the menu will reflect that influence. However,  when families get together their favourite food will be those dishes which owe little, if anything, to outside influences. Even if they were originally borrowed they have been 're-composed', adding new flavours and generally acquiring a new personality.

Rice belongs to the main meals, lunch and dinner. Merienda food is served purely for enjoyment and hospitality. Among the items served there may be dishes as substantial as fried noodles with mixed meats, pancit guisado, and noodle soups, pancit luglug; fresh or fried spring rolls, lumpia; and always some sweet treats such as rice cakes, puto and bibingka, a cake very similar in taste and texture to a Western teacake.

Traditional Filipino food takes in dishes such as sinigang (a sour soup); guinatan (fish, meat, vegetables or yams cooked in coconut milk); adobo (a piquant preparation of chicken or pork cooked with vinegar, garlic and black pepper); kari-kari (a stew which features oxtail, stewing beef, or sometimes tripe as well as eggplants (aubergines) and other vegetables simmered in a sauce made bright with the addition of annatto); lechon (a whole roast pig served with a special sauce which includes liver pate); dinuguan (pork meat and organ meats with spices stewed in fresh pork blood). Another popular local food is lumpiang ubod, a delicious spring roll which has as part of its filling the fresh heart of a coconut palm.

Philippines Recipes

1. Adobong Antigo
2. Adobong Baboy
3. Adobong Labong (Bamboo Shoots Adobo)
4. Adobong Manok (Spicy Chicken Stew)
5. Adobong Pusit (Squid Cooked in Vinegar)
6. Adobong Baboy
7. Afritadang Manok
8. Apritadang Baboy (Pork Stew)
9. Asadong Manok (Marinated Chicken Stew)
10. Beef Pot Roast
11. Binagoongang Baboy
12. Bulanglang
13. Caldereta (Rich Beef Stew)
14. Cardillong Bangus
15. Chicken and Pork Adobo
16. Chicken Galantina
17. Chicken Paella
18. Chicken Sotanghon
19. Chicken Tinola
20. Chop Suey
21. Corned Beef Frittata
22. Daing Na Bangus
23. Embutido
24. Empanadas
25. Escabeche
26. Estofado (Stewed Pork)
27. Fish Tinola
28. Fritada (Chicken in Tomato Sauce)
29. Ginisang Munggo
30. Higadillo (Sauteed Liver)
31. Inihaw na Pusit
32. Kalderetta (Goat Stew)
33. Kare-kare
34. Karne Asada (Beef Stew)
35. Karne con Kutsay (Beef with Leeks)
36. Kinilaw Na Tanguigue (Mackerel in Coconut Vinaigrette)
37. Laksa Bean (Noodles with Vegetables)
38. Lugaw with Goto
39. Lumpia Shanghai
40. Mechado  (Beef Stew)
41. Menudo
42. Misuang Manok (Chicken with Noodles)
43. Nilagang Baka
44. Nilagang Manok (Chicken and Vegetable Soup)
45. Paella
46. Paksiw Na Bangus
47. Paksiw Na Pata (Pickled Pork Hock)
48. Pancit Buko
49. Pancit Canton ni Manong Ken (Pancit Bihon)
50. Pancit Guisado (Sauteed Vegetable with Noodles)
51. Pancit Mami (Noodles in Broth)
52. Pancit Miki (Noodles with Bean Sprouts)
53. Pato Tim (Marinated Duck)
54. Pinatisang Manok
55. Pochero (Beef Shanks with Vegetables)
56. Pork Barbecue
57. Pork Puchero
58. Prawn Fritters
59. Rellenong Alimasag (Stuffed Crabs)
60. Rellenong Talong
61. Sauted Sitao with Bagoong
62. Shrimp Adobo
63. Sinangag (Fried Rice)
64. Sinigang (Tamarind Soup)
65. Sinigang Na Baboy
66. Sopang Mais (Crab and Corn Soup)
67. Stuffed Chicken
68. Suam Na Baboy (Boiled Pork with Noodles and Cabbage)
69. Tinolang Manok (Ginger Chicken Soup)
70. Tocino

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