Easy Dinner Recipes For Family Filipino

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Craving a taste of the Philippines? Here are 10 easy Filipino recipes, tried and true home recipes, from classic chicken adobo and variations of pancit (noodles), to comforting arroz caldo and more!

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Looking for a taste of the Philippines? Here are 10 easy Filipino recipes, all simple enough to make for a comforting weeknight meal. Try classics like Arroz Caldo (chicken and rice soup) and Chicken Adobo, to Pancit Bihon (rice noodles) and Mechado (beef stew) – you’re sure to find a new family favorite.

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Whenever I am stuck in a food rut, the dishes I turn to time and again are these — classic Filipino dishes that I ate as a little girl. My mother and aunts recreated these dishes in their adopted American kitchens, and each spoonful is full of memories and love.

Over the years, I have perfected these recipes – experimenting with the classics and deciding when to keep the dishes true to how I learned them. These are the dishes that are the classics, the ones I pass on to my own children, and I hope you find your own family favorites as you cook them for the ones you love.

When you need a little TLC, there’s nothing better than chicken and rice soup, and in the Philippines, Arroz Caldo is the answer to a comforting bowl. This is my quick and easy, fast and speedy way of making Arroz Caldo. Ready in just about half an hour, it’s perfect for weeknight dinners.

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Filipino Chicken Adobo is the national dish of the Philippines, and this is my beloved family recipe for authentic, classic chicken adobo, braised in vinegar, soy sauce, and a generous portion of garlic. Serve it over rice for the ultimate comfort food.

My mom's lumpia recipe is one of my favorites, and this skips the rolling for an easy meal! You may know it as an egg roll bowl, but it is also known as Filipino lumpiang hubad. This lumpia bowl requires no wrappers, rolling, or frying!

Mechado is the first meal I ever cooked for my husband when we were dating, and it's sure to win any one's heart. This hearty stew is full of tender morsels of beef, potatoes, and carrots, braised to perfection.

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There are many ways to adobo, and Filipino Pork Adobo is my dad's personal favorite. I share tips on how to make it in a slow cooker or pressure cooker, making this recipe even easier than it already is!

This glass noodle soup was my friends' favorite when I would cook it for them in our grad school days! On cold winter nights, I turn to this comforting soup that warms you up and nourishes from within.

I think of my dad every time I make Nilaga - this was his personal specialty. Served over rice, this Filipino beef and vegetable soup is simple and hearty.

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Pancit Bihon is a classic rice noodle dish that showcases Chinese influence on Philippine cuisine and popular at many a Filipino fiesta. This easy version of the rice noodle dish is quick enough for weeknight dinner!

This chicken stew is a stand-by at my house! This humble dish with chicken braised in a tomato sauce with potatoes and vegetables is delicious served over rice.

These are just a few of my favorite recipes, it was hard to narrow it down to just ten! But the good news is if you’ve cooked your way through these classics, there’s even more to explore. I hope you enjoy them – happy cooking!

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Filipino Chicken Adobo may be the national dish of the Philippines, but the variations on adobo are endless. This is my beloved family recipe for authentic chicken adobo, braised in vinegar, soy sauce, and a generous portion of garlic.

My daughter was rummaging through our video collection, looking for a movie we could all agree on. She called out title after title, each one getting shot down. “Nooo, too scary.” “Nah, we’ve seen that a hundred times!” “Ugh, again!?” At the rate we were going, family movie night was not quite happening.

Filipino Chicken Adobo

I completely forgot. My dad had sent a dvd of converted home movies, where he captured moments from the time I was six until my graduation from high school, all on one vhs tape. (Incidentally, I laugh, because autocorrect doesn’t even recognize “vhs” anymore.)

We started watching, and my life flashed before my very eyes. Dresses I haven’t seen in years, Christmas memories that were tucked away, my mother’s voice, piano duets, birthday parties, my little sister’s birth, our little house in New York where the neighborhood seemed so green, and whatever became of all the neighbor kids I used to play with?

For the kids, it was amusing…eye-opening — to see me at their age — and younger — and acting like a total goof. Exactly like them.

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For anyone who grows up in a Filipino household, I’m willing to bet that the very first Filipino dish they learn to cook is adobo, and for me, that was certainly the case. It was the first dish that reminded me of home when I left for college; the first dish I cooked for my family after my mother passed away soon after. Filipino Chicken Adobo is the dish I cooked when I moved to Chicago, and it’s the dish I can make with my eyes closed, to remind me of home.

I’ve shared iterations of adobo here with you before. My dad is partial to chicken and pork adobo, and I’ve shared adobo-style pulled pork and burgers, and I even shared this classic recipe with my friend Gina years ago — a slow-cooker version of this recipe even ended up in her recent cookbook.

Shared it with you? The one I make the most, when all I want is tender, juicy, deeply flavored chicken adobo, on a bed of rice with lots of sauce?

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As many islands there are in the Philippine archipelago, there are just as many versions of adobo — the national dish of the Philippines; some have coconut milk, some have chilies. This may or may not be like yours. But this Filipino Chicken Adobo is

, as I was taught by my Tita Leah and continue to make at home, preserving it in my children’s tastebuds, for it is theirs now, too.

Filipino Chicken Adobo may be the national dish of the Philippines, but the variations are endless. This is my beloved family recipe for authentic chicken adobo, braised in vinegar, soy sauce, and a generous portion of garlic. Serve it over a bed of rice, and if you're like me, with lots of flavorful sauce.

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Whether or not you leave the skin on the chicken, I leave up to you. If you are trying to cut extra fat, definitely remove the skin before marinating. This dish can also be prepared in a slow cooker or pressure cooker.

For the slow cooker: Marinate as instructed. Brown the chicken on all sides, then add all the ingredients in the slow cooker insert. Cover and set the slow cooker for 10 hours on low (if you are in a rush, you can also try 6 hours on high).

For the pressure cooker (or Instant Pot): Marinate as instructed. Brown the chicken on all sides, then add all the ingredients in the pressure cooker insert. Cover and pressure cook for 15 minutes.

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You’ll find hearty stews, awesome stir fry dishes, tasty appetizers and so much more. Filipino food has such a diversity of great flavors!

We are starting this list of Filipino recipes with our favorite Chicken Caldereta. This Filipino Chicken Stew is coconut based. It has tons of veggies and Asian staples. Umami Bomb!!

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Make a big pot of the most delicious, melt in your mouth pork stew. This Filipino Pork Menudo is bursting with soul-satisfying flavors with tons of veggies!

This is a great, yet very simple, chicken dish in Filipino cuisine. There are so many flavors going on at the same time. It’s a brilliant combination of tangy, sweet, sour and savory. One of our favorite Filipino recipes!

This porkGiniling, or Filipino Picadillo, is a classic Pinoy comfort food. Ground pork and veggies simmer in a tomato based sauce packed with great flavors. And it’s so easy!