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Top 10 Filipino Christmas Food Recipes

When you’re in the Philippines, Christmas isn’t so without the celebration of togetherness with families and friends and sharing a feast with these loved ones. That’s what Christmas feels like to me, at least. Christmas in the Philippines is all about gatherings, food, and more gatherings with more food. Of course, there is the spirit …

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Pork Menudo Recipe

Filipino Pork Menudo Ribs Recipe – Easy to make at home

Pork menudo is another dish that we, Filipinos are very much familiar with. It is a saucy dish that goes very well with rice. It’s no surprise that we like eating this pork dish. Menudo is a “cousin” of the Afritada, Kaldereta and Mechado. (I get confused with these, sometimes. LOL!) There are a lot of similarities among these …

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Afritada Recipe

Basic way to cook Pork Afritada – Authentic Filipino Recipe

Pork afritada, another Filipino recipe, is a tomato-based dish. It’s cooked with carrots, potatoes and bell peppers, like many of our tomato-based foods. With that, pork afritada has a lot of similarities with the menudo, mechado, and even the kaldereta. There are bits of differences in flavor and ingredients; but the manner of cooking, the …

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Pork Picadillo Recipe

How To Cook Pork Picadillo | Easy Filipino Recipe

Pork giniling is the Filipino version of the picadillo recipe. This is a simple pork dish fried with saute’d garlic, onions and tomatoes. Some put tomato sauce in their picadillo to make it richer. As for me, I’m sticking with the basic. I don’t want to overpower the natural sweetness of the tomatoes with the flavors …

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Roast Pork Crackling

How To Cook Roast Pork Crackling | Filipino Crackling Recipe

Who doesn’t like Roast pork cracklings? Hubby made a very simple Chinese roast pork crackling. It’s very basic it cracks me up! Making pork crackle seems to be a difficult task. The problem in cooking pork crackling is ending up with a leathery pork skin (which is hardly a crackle); or maybe having a really …

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