Tag: Nilaga

If you have been cooking Filipino dishes for a while, surely you’ve come across nilagang pata. This simple yet satisfying Filipino dish is one of the popular viands in the Philippines. It is a traditional dish that you can commonly encounter in many homes for lunch and even in small restaurants. It is cooked using pata (pork meat) with the addition of vegetables according to your preferences.

If you want to taste a unique blend of pork meat soup with its spices and vegetables then nilagang pata ng baboy is one of the recommended dishes that you should try. Whether you’re learning how to cook Filipino dishes or visiting the country and would want to know which dishes are appetizing especially during lunch and cold season, nilagang pata ng baboy is just the recipe for you.

It can be served for lunch and dinner on ordinary days so you don’t have to limit yourself with the appropriate time on when to serve the dish. It is served best with steamed rice and you can use fish sauce or commonly known locally as patis as well as siling labuyo or bird’s eye chili as its dip.

Preparing the nilagang pata ng baboy is basically the same as when you’re cooking other meat soup in the Philippines. In fact, it is one of the easiest to prepare and cook and serve it in no time to your family, friends and visitors who are around during lunch or dinner. Do you cook to impress? Nilagang pata ng baboy is a simple dish but impressive in its way as well.

With the right pork meat texture and enough time, the taste would be overwhelming even to the seasoned chef. All you have to do is choose a good set of spices and vegetable and you’re good to go.

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Among the simplest dishes available in the country, Nilagang Baboy is perhaps one of the easiest to prepare yet you can never undermine its pleasant taste. Underestimating what it does to your taste buds will only cause you to miss its very essence.

The only thing you need to do is boil a pot of water, prepare the vegetables and other spices of your preferences and voila! You already have nilagang baboy. This may sound so bland and too direct but even so, as mentioned, you should not underestimate its luscious taste – not to mention the very essence of why you use baboy (pork) as meat. For some, especially those whose cultures would not allow the use of such meat may use a different set of preparation but still using the same process or method and arrive at a unique taste of nilaga.

Nonetheless, in this case, you are using pork meat as the main ingredient. There is no hard and fast rule on what vegetable or spice you want to add to the preparation. However, the most basic ingredient you can find includes onion, peppercorn, potato and cabbage. You can experiment on other ingredients if you prefer but the classic nilagang baboy would have these basic ingredients.

This type of soup is usually served during lunch and even during dinner on regular holidays. It is best serve hot and with dipping the meat on patis (fish sauce) with siling labuyo (bird’s eye chili).

If you are looking for Filipino soup to complete your dining experience then nilagang baboy would do the trick!

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