Before we start picking and cooking our food, we usually ask ourselves what’s best for our appetite. But of course, we also have to think about how the chosen dish would benefit our bodies. That’s why it is good to have a menu of healthy options in our head for when we wonder what to…
Shrimp Recipes
Ginataang Hipon Sitaw at Kalabasa
What is the perfect meal? Typically, it’s one that manages to satisfy all three tiers of the food pyramid. First, you have your carbs — pasta, bread, or, in most Filipino cases, rice will do the trick for that. Then, you have your proteins. This can come in an array of ingredients, whether it’s meat,…
Coconut Shrimp
Regardless of what country or city you’re in, a great casual dining restaurant should always have a good shrimp appetizer. This isn’t a hard condition to fulfill — considering that there are so many out there! When you cook it perfectly, shrimp can come in all sorts of recipes, appealing to all sorts of crowds….
Garlic Butter Shrimp Pancit Canton
An assortment of ingredients, a harmony of sauces, and delicious noodles to boot — there’s no dish quite like pancit canton! While sinigang and adobo typically take the coveted national dish spot, I’d say pancit is in a league of its own. This dish is the perfect balance of sweet and savory, with its medley…
Halabos na Hipon with Butter
To many Filipinos, halabos na hipon is one of the quickest and most basic ways to cook shrimp. It’s so fast that in less than 30 minutes, your dish will be ready at your dining table! Halabos is basically the process of cooking seafood–– mostly shrimps or crabs ––in water or salt. It’s the minimal…
Easy Kung Pao Shrimp Recipe
This Easy Kung Pao Shrimp Recipe is all about making your own homemade kung pao shrimp quicker. This recipe makes it easier and faster to cook kung pao shrimp at home. Instead of making one from scratch, I used store-bough kung pao sauce. In case you want to make the sauce from scratch, refer to…
Shrimp Laing
This shrimp laing recipe is my version of the popular vegetable dish that originated from the Bicol region. This recipe makes use of a good amount of shrimp, along with hot peppers, and a generous amount of coconut milk. How to Cook Shrimp Laing I want to emphasize that it important to clean the shrimp…
Garlic Butter Shrimp Recipe
Garlic Butter Shrimp is a super easy dish to make. This recipe shows how to cook this beloved dish the Filipino way. I like how it turned out. The dish is rich and flavorful. I enjoyed eating it with newly cooked white rice. The use of shrimp with scales and head make this unique from…
Sinigang na Hipon Recipe
Sinigang na Hipon is a Filipino main dish having shrimp as the main ingredient. Fresh Shrimps and vegetables are cooked by boiling in a sour broth. The commonly used souring agent is tamarind. However, other fruits such as guava, tomato, bilimbi (known as kamias), green mango, pineapple, and wild mangosteen (santol) can also be used.
Similar to the previous sinigang dishes that we featured (Sinigang na ulo ng Salmon and Pork Sinigang), This variation is eaten with rice and some fish sauce (patis) on the side. I usually cook this dish whenever I feel nostalgic or when the weather is pretty cold. Like today, the temperature is dropping again somewhat signaling for the coming of winter.
Try this comforting Sinigang na Hipon recipe.
Sipo Eggs Recipe
Have you had Sipo Eggs before? If not, then now is the best time to know more about it and learn how to cook it at the comfort of your own home. Here is a short introduction about this dish. Sipo Egg is a Filipino quail egg and shrimp recipe that originated in Pampanga. This…
Sinigang na Sugpo Recipe
I have been craving for Tiger prawn for the longest time. This was the reason why I decided to make Sinigang na Sugpo upon arriving in the Philippines. The wet markets there carry the freshest seafood. You can watch the video of my special episode below wherein I went to Imus wet market in Cavite…
Shrimp with Butter and Taba ng Talangka Recipe – Bisita Kusina Episode 2
This is Panlasang Pinoy Bisita Kusina Episode 2. We went to a farm in San Rafael Bulacan, in the Philippines to feature Ricky Halasan’s specialty, Shrimp with Butter and Taba ng Talangka. Special thanks to Jen and Ricky for inviting us to their farm. It was a memorable experience. We all had a great time. The…
Pata at Hipon sa Gata na May Monggo at Langka
Pata at Hipon sa Gata na May Monggo at Langka is a dish composed of pork hock, shrimp, unripe jack fruit, and mung beans. All of these ingredients were cooked together in coconut milk and I also added some shrimp paste or bagoong alamang for extra flavor. This dish is somewhat a combination of multiple…
Filipino Shrimp Curry Recipe
This Filipino Shrimp Curry Recipe is simple, straightforward, and the result is delicious. I have been making my shrimp curry this way for as long as I can remember. This recipe always provides the result that I like, may it be for shrimp or other ingredients, like fish fillet or clams. I suggest that you…
Ginataang Hipon na may Sitaw at Kalabasa
Ginataang Hipon na may Sitaw at Kalabasa is Filipino dish composed of shrimp, calabaza squash (locally known as kalabasa), and snake beans or sitaw. These ingredients are cooked in coconut milk. This recipe also utilizes coconut cream, in addition to coconut milk. I received requests from many of our followers about developing a similar recipe…
Salted Egg Prawn Recipe
Salted Egg Prawn is simply amazing. Imagine the good taste of nilasing na hipon elevated to a whole new level by tossing in a sauce with creamy salted egg yolks. This dish is totally insane, in a good way. If you have not tried this dish yet, all you have to do is check the…
Shrimp and Chicken Pancit Canton
Shrimp and Chicken Pancit Canton is one of my favorite Filipino stir fried flour sticks version. I love the combination of pancit canton and shrimp, and the addition of shredded chicken elevates the dish to next level of yumminess. The variety of vegetables are just icing on the cake, so to speak. I remember when…
Butter Garlic Shrimp and Squid
Butter Garlic Shrimp and Squid makes a good appetizer. It can also be a good topping for pasta. Since we are on vacation, I tried making these dish using easy-to-find frozen ingredients. These are the ingredients that you should be able to get from a Walmart or a Target. Have you tried our garlic butter…
Cioppino Recipe
Cioppino is a seafood stew dish that originated from San Francisco, California. Italian immigrants were the first to come-up with this wonderful seafood concoction. It is composed of seven different kinds of ingredients from the sea, six are seafood and the other component is fish steak or fish fillet; these are shrimp, squid, sea scallops,…
Pancit Sotanghon Na May Hipon
Pancit Sotanghon Na May Hipon is a dish fit for the holiday season. You can prepare this during family reunions, holiday potluck, Christmas dinner, and during New Year’s eve. I love to have this with few pieces of lumpiang shanghai dipped in homemade sweet and sour sauce. Delicious! Aside from being yummy and very tasty,…
Palabok Recipe
Palabok or Pancit Palabok is a type of Filipino noodle dish that makes use of cornstarch sticks, which is also known as palabok noodles. It has an orange sauce composed of minced pork, tinapa flakes (or smoked fish flakes), and annatto water. Flour is diluted in water and added to the sauce to give it…
Seafood Sinigang
This version of Seafood Sinigang is simple, but delicious. It is composed of fish steak and shrimp. I also had vegetables such as okra, sitaw (snake beans), and dahon ng mustasa (mustard leaves). It is the perfect dish to serve on a rainy day. I think that the combination of fish and shrimp was successful…
Ginisang Sitaw Kalabasa at Malunggay with Shrimp (Sauteed Squash with Shrimp)
Ginisang Sitaw Kalabasa at Malunggay with Shrimp is a simple yet healthy dish that you can make for lunch or even dinner. The following are the ingredients that I used for this dish: squash (I used butternut squash for this recipe), snake beans (also known as sitaw), malunggay leaves (see the health benefits of malunggay here),…
Spicy Ginataang Hipon Recipe
I personally think that most ginataan main dishes are delicious. I even like it better when there is at least a bit of heat added into it. This Spicy Ginataang Hipon is a good example. Shrimp cooked in coconut milk is undeniably yummy, but it gets better when chili peppers are added. There were two kinds…