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Creamy Palabok

🇵🇭 Philippines

Servings: 8 Prep: 20 minutes Cook: 40 minutes Total: 1 hour

Ingredients

  • rice noodles (palabok noodles), cooked
  • 1/4 cup oil
  • 1/2 pound ground pork
  • 1 tablespoon fish sauce
  • 1 packet (8 g) Magic Sarap seasoning
  • 2 packs (250 ml each) all-purpose cream
  • 8 pieces poached shrimp
  • 1 cup fried tofu, cubed
  • 2 tablespoons fried garlic bits
  • 1 cup smoked fish (tinapa) flakes
  • 1 cup crushed chicharon (pork cracklings)
  • 1/4 cup chopped green onions
  • 4 hardboiled eggs, peeled and quartered
  • calamansi, for serving

Steps

  1. Cook noodles in boiling water according to package directions, then drain well.
  2. Heat oil with annatto seeds until color is extracted, then discard the seeds.
  3. Cook ground pork in the annatto oil until lightly browned, breaking it apart with a spoon.
  4. Season with fish sauce and Magic Sarap, stirring to combine.
  5. Add the all-purpose cream and simmer until the pork is fully cooked and the sauce slightly thickens.
  6. Arrange noodles on a serving platter and spoon the palabok sauce on top.
  7. Garnish with shrimp, tofu, tinapa flakes, crushed chicharon, garlic bits, green onions, and hardboiled eggs.
  8. Serve with calamansi on the side.

Source: www.kawalingpinoy.com