ILOILO FOOD TRIP

Adobong Mani is the most popular way Pinoys enjoy peanuts. Sold along the streets, sold in mall stalls or peddled all around even jeepneys and buses, fried peanuts are perfect munch on the go!  Much more so if there's a generous amount of fried garlic in your batch - that is if you have a suki mani vendor. If not, then you just content yourself with the "measly" garlic or you can make your own! Here's a simple Adobong Mani recipe

Daing na Bangus or pakas nga bangrus is among the most common ways of serving milk fish. As there are a "hundered and one ways" of cooking bangus, daing is among my personal favorite and good thins its easy and simple to prepare. One can even buy ready to cook daing na bangus in wet markets and the fish section of groceries. But you can also make your own so you can put ingredients that suit your taste or experiment with it. Here's the recipe for Daing na Bangus

Patola is one of my favorite vegetables. I like how subtle it tastes yet quite distinctive and its soft texture you get can still have a bite with it. It deliciously blends with other vegetables when made into dishes like laswa or tino-um with mushrooms . It's also cooked with miswa for a great tasting soup. Here's a basic recipe for Ginisang Patola with Giniling which can also be made into a Miswa Soup. https://iloilofoodtrip.blogspot.com/2019/01/laswa-with-pinirito-and-sinugba.html?m=1

Making  ube halaya  is just simple but it tends to be almost tedious especially the mixing. The most important is that you make sure you have quality ube (purple yam), preferably the tapul variety. That's easy if you have a trusted and dependable suki at the market who won't shortchange you by substituting purple sweet potato.  And if you're ready for the challenge, here's a simple recipe  to make a delicious Ube Halaya

Puto is among the most popular Filipino native delicacies . On it's own, it's one delicious snack but also eaten with dinuguan or in Iloilo, with a bowl of hot batchoy .  It comes in many forms and in many variants, the simplest of which is just plain and simple rice puto.  Here's a very simple recipe for Rice Puto with Gata