My Rainy Season - Top 10 Filipino Food to Keep You warm

The holy grail of Filipino soup dishes.

1.) Lapaz Batchoy

This is a popular noodle dish in the Philippines that originated in La Paz, Iloilo, its main ingredients are:

• pork offal like spleen
•  kidneys and liver

Served on a deep bowl with a very hot soup it is garnished with:

•  garlic
• pork cracklings
• spring onions
• raw egg

Traditional Batchoy

Is a soup dish composed of sliced pork, pig’s innards and miki noodles. Traditional batchoy recipe requires the use of shrimp paste or guinamus (or guinamos). Unlike regular shrimp paste or bagoong, the shrimp paste used in traditional batchoy is sold in small blocks.

The origins of the dish is still inconclusive but there were two stories that are quite popular.

2.) Bulalo

This is a popular Filipino dish. It is a stew made from:

•  piping hot beef shanks with bone marrow
• Corn on the cob
• peppercorns
• potatoes
• bokchoy are often the ingredients of bulalo

A bowl this warm comforting food will definitely shake off the shivers that you get from the chilly weather.

3.) Champorado

This is a sweet chocolate rice porridge that uses:

• sweet glutinous rice (malagkit)
• cocoa powder

Tableya (pure cocoa blocks) can be used as a replacement for cocoa powder. Combine it with salted dried fish and top it off with some milk and you have got a warm, sweet bowl to devour on a rainy day.

4.) Lugaw

This is the Filipino congee. It is similarly prepared like boiled rice porridge, but typically thicker. Most often, lugaw is cooked in:

• chicken or beef stock
• fresh strips of ginger

It is usually topped with scallions and served with crispy fried garlic. Serve it with fried pork and tofu and you have the perfect food for the cold weather.

5.) Sopas

Literally means soup in tagalog or Spanish sopa. Filipino sopas is noticeably creamy and made with plenty of:

• chicken
• vegetables
• macaroni pasta
• milk

It is a very hearty soup not just ideal for the cold weather, but also for giving relief for common cough, colds, and fever.

6.) Lomi ( Tagalog Version)

This is another noodle soup dish made of lomi noodles cooked in stock together with:

• shrimp
• meatballs
• veggies
• beaten eggs
• cornstarch to thicken the soup

This is commonly sold in eateries or panciteria along the street or in Chinese restaurants and usually served during rainy season.

7.) Chicken Sotanghon Soup

 This is a noodle soup dish made of chicken meat boiled in stock together with:

• sotanghon noodles
• vegetables

This is commonly served during rainy season.

8.) Miswa Soup

This is a soup dish that best eaten during the rainy season or even when the weather is tipping on the colder side. Depending on the cook, this Misua Soup recipe can be prepared using a variety of ingredients such as:

• chicken and pork
• patola
• sliced hard boiled eggs
• malunggay leaves

As the recipe has misua noodles in it, it could be said that the recipe is Chinese-influenced given Chinese cuisine’s affinity to noodles both in soup-based and stir-fried recipes.

9.) Homemade Wonton Soup

This authentic homemade wonton soup recipe is easy and fun to make! Each hearty bowl is packed with:

• plump pork dumplings
• fresh vegetables
•  jumbo shrimp

A super easy, light and comforting wonton soup that you can make right at home – and it tastes 1000x better than ordering out!

10.) Fish Lugaw with Malunggay

 A Pinoy version of Fish Risotto with Malungay.

•  slices tanguigue
• risotto rice
• malungay leaves

It is a very hearty soup not just ideal for the cold weather.

I will post the recipes soon. Or visit the link on the image soure.

Thank you!

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