Soup

Milkfish (bangus) belly and moringa (malunggay) miso soup

Fatty milkfish belly is cut into small cubes and combined with freshly stripped moringa leaves in this Filipinized miso soup. Chunky enough to be served with rice as a main course.

Cook time: 10

Servings: 4 people

Boiled beef shank, marrow and vegetable soup (bulalo)

In the Philippines, bulalo refers to (1) the bone marrow from the beef shank, (2) a cut of bone-in beef shank, or (3) a meat and vegetable soup cooked with beef shank with the marrow intact.

In this recipe, we cook the soup and vegetable dish in the slow cooker.

Cook time: 6

Servings: 4 people

My grandmother’s almondigas

Filipino meatball and misua soup (almondigas)

A Filipino meatball and noodle soup, it is quite probable that almondigas is an adaptation of the Mexican meatball soup called albondigas.

Cook time: 20

Servings: 4 people

Miso soup with tofu and wakame

Basic miso soup is a canvas painted with two fundamentals — dashi and miso. What else you add to that template is up to you. This is the miso soup that the world is most familiar with — cooked with wakame, scallions and soft tofu.

Cook time: 5

Servings: 6 people

Fish head soup with coconut cream

Thick and spicy, the heat of this fish head soup with coconut cream comes from garlic, ginger and chilies.

Cook time: 20

Servings: 2 people