Filipino Food

Media Noche

Featured photo by Angie Pastor.

Media Noche in the Philippines is New Year’s Eve, during which everyone looks forward to the large spread of food to feast on. 🙂

Dayap

Dayap is the key lime familiar to Westerners, though few know that it’s actually a native plant of Southeast Asia.

Scientific name: Citrus aurantifolia (Christm.) Swingle.

Morcon

Morcon (Murkon in Tagalog orthography) is a holiday dish during the Christmas season in the Philippines. It is a meat roll stuffed with sausage or hotdogs, carrots, pickles, cheese, and egg.

Goldilocks Polvoron

Goldilocks is a Philippine bakeshop chain that makes different flavors of polvoron.

Pitson

The word pitson is from the Spanish pichón. Below is an old

Aceitunas Aliniadas

This recipe for Aceitunas Aliniadas (aceitunas aliñadas) treats was used by the nuns of Santa Clara for making the jarred olives that were Christmas gifts to the Spanish friars.

Olives are imported because they do not grow natively in the tropics.

Curacha

In the Chavacano language of Zamboanga in the southern Philippines, curacha refers to the spanner crab or red frog crab whose scientific name is Ranina ranina.

Batwan

These batwan fruits are used as souring agents in Ilonggo cuisine.

Balunbalunan

Spicy Adobong Balunbalunan by Ahljhon Miranda The Tagalog word balunbalunan refers to

Rambutan

This is a popular fruit in the Philippines.

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