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Estimated cooking time: 30 minutes.

Ingredients:

• 25 pieces gabi (taro) leaves, dried and shredded
• 1/2 kilo pork, diced
• 1/4 cup shrimp bagoong
• 5 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 red onions, chopped
• 2 tablespoons ginger, minced
• 5 jalapeno pepper, sliced
• 1 cup coconut cream (katang gata)
• 2 cups coconut milk (gata)
• 1/2 teaspoon monosodium glutamate (MSG)
• 2 tablespoons of oil
• 1 teaspoon salt

Instructions:

• In a casserole, sauté garlic, ginger and onions then add the pork.

• mix in the gabi leaves.

• Pour in the coconut milk (gata) and bring to a boil then simmer for 15 minutes.

• Add jalapeno, bagoong, salt and MSG and simmer for another 5 minutes.

• Add the coconut cream and continue to simmer until oil comes out of the cream.

• Serve hot with plain white rice.

Bicol Express

Ingredients:

• 1/4 kilo pork, thinly sliced

• 1 cup Baguio beans

• 3 cups long chili or jalapeno peppers

• 1 onion, minced

• 1 head of garlic, minced

• 1 cup coconut milk

• 1 cup coconut cream

• 2 tablespoons of cooking oil

• Salt to taste

Instructions:

• In a bowl of water with salt, soak chili peppers for 30 minutes then rinse and strain.

• In a cooking pan, heat cooking oil and brown sliced pork for a few minutes.

• In another pan, sauté minced garlic and onion.

• Add to the sauté the browned pork.

• Then add the coconut milk, bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes.

• Add the chili peppers, Baguio beans and cook until dish gets a little dry.

• Add the coconut cream and simmer until the sauce thickens.

• Salt to taste.