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This Filipino escabeche is served with a sweet vinegar sauce with onion and red bell pepper. This recipe works well with any white fish like tilapia, cod, or halibut.

This traditional Filipino pork stew is easy to prepare and is the perfect comfort food for a busy family. Serve this tender pork and its rich, tangy sauce over rice.

This sweetened coconut milk is used as topping for Inangit (sticky rice).

This one's for you. Filipinos' all-time favorite food.

Filipino coconut dessert.

This Filipino fish dish is very easy to prepare. The only time-consuming and challenging part is cleaning the fish.

These sweet and soft mini sponge cakes are usually baked in small molds and served during snack time. You can use muffin tins if you don't have the molds.

This Filipino chicken stew contains meat and vegetables in a very flavorful sauce made with plantains and tomatoes. Serve with rice.

This Instant Pot chicken adobo has all the Filipino flavor you love without hours of marinating. Serve over rice, if desired.

This fried garlic rice is a simple Philippine dish bursting with flavor and aroma.

Chicken afritada (Filipino stew) is a dish we make back in the Philippines. It's really delicious, and you can substitute pork for chicken or mix them both. It's great over rice!

Sinigang na isda sa miso is a popular Filipino soup dish usually eaten for lunch with rice. Several variations abound in the Philippines, but I suggest that the green chiles never be excluded.

Leche flan is a rich Filipino baked custard dessert with a layer of smooth caramel. My mom always made this flan for dessert and I always loved it!

Creamy chicken macaroni soup — comfort Filipino food that transcends culture, time, and ages. It's made simply in one pot that I have adjusted to be able to add all ingredients as you go.

Spareribs glazed with the sweet, tangy taste of the Philippines. One of the honey coating ingredients, star anise, is native to China; it is a star-shaped, dark brown pod that contains a pea-sized seed in each of its eight segments. Star anise is available at all Asian markets as well as many general grocery stores.

One of my childhood favorites from my hometown, Cebu City, in the Phillipines. When finished, you can steam this dish on a steamer for 10 minutes to mimic the effect of a steamed dish like what they do in dim sum restaurants. I personally think it tastes just fine without steaming.

A very coconutty and chewy rice flour dessert. Traditionally, this is baked in banana leaves, but my family prefers the crispy edges, which is why I use a sheet pan. I have been testing out several types of chewy desserts using rice flour, and this seems to be the favorite.

A popular street food in the Philippines, kwek kwek are hard-boiled quail eggs in orange batter that are deep fried and served with a sweet and sour sauce.

Warning - this recipe is not easy, but well worth the effort. This is a Filipino dish with Chinese roots. A steamed, almost sweet, yeasty bun filled with delicious chicken filling can also be made with shredded pork. You will need a bamboo steamer.

This avocado milkshake is rich, creamy, and refreshing. It's a traditional Filipino treat!

Beef nilaga is another one-meal-in-a-pot dish that's terrific during cooler weather. It contains soup, meat, and vegetables all cooked together in one delicious broth. Serve hot, either alone or with rice.

This champorado recipe is a hearty sweet rice (malagkit) with chocolate that is great for snacking.

This is my recipe for the the dough for the popular Filipino steamed bun with chicken and pork filling (link to recipe in footnotes). Serve hot with noodle soup.

In this Filipino fish recipe, bangus (milkfish) is stewed in a flavorful, slightly sour tamarind broth with lots of vegetables, an all-time favorite.

My Filipino stepmother made these delicious lumpia on special occasions. You can find frozen lumpia wrappers at Asian grocery stores or use egg roll wrappers as a substitute. Serve with banana ketchup if you can find it.

Ubecake is a deliciously light Filipino cake made with purple yams andmacapuno(coconut sport). Its vibrant purple color will look gorgeous on any dessert table!

This Filipino beef giniling stew is one of my favorite comfort foods. My way of making it is pretty easy and doesn't take too long. Serve with white rice.

This buchi recipe makes deep-fried glutinous rice flour balls filled with sweetened mung beans for a yummy Pinoy snack.

Lechon kawali is a popular Filipino dish of crispy deep-fried pork belly pieces that are super crunchy, tender, and delicious. Serve them hot with your favorite dipping sauce.

This goat stew is based on a Filipino dish called caldereta. It is usually served with rice. The serving size for this recipe is 2 to 4, depending on how much bone the meat has. Serve over rice. Masarap!

This ginataang manok is a Filipino chicken dish flavored with ginger and coconut milk. Each family has their own version; this is my mother's. It's a rich dish that makes your kitchen smell so wonderful! Once my family smells the ginger frying and coconut milk simmering, they can't wait for it to be done so they can dig in. I salt it liberally, as the coconut milk tends to hide the salt flavor.

Adobong pusitis a Filipino squid recipe that tastes best if you use fresh, smaller squid. Squid is simmered with onion, garlic, tomato, vinegar, and soy sauce for a tasty meal.

This basic empanada dough can be filled with any type of filling, then fried or baked.

This adobo seasoning is often used in Mexican and Filipino dishes. I've recently started mixing my own seasonings.

This atsara recipe is a Filipino relish made normally with very fresh green papayas. Sauerkraut can also be used.

This recipe forlumpiain the air fryer results in the same crispiness without having to deep-fry. Your taste buds will never know the difference, but your waistline will!