Pancit Palabok is my ultimate favorite Filipino food so I decided to share the recipe of it to those who wants to try. 🙂
Pancit Palabok Recipe
Estimated preparation for toppings: 1 1/2 hours
Estimated cooking time for sauce & noodles: 40 minutes
Pansit Palabok Ingredients:
Palabok Noodles / Sauce
- 1/2 kilo miki noodles
- 1/2 kilo small crabs
- 5 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 tablespoons of atchuete seeds or oil
- 2 tablespoons of patis (fish sauce)
- 4 tablespoons of cornstarch, dissolved in water
- 1 teaspoon of monosodium glutamate (MSG)
- 1 1/2 cups of water
Palabok Toppings
- Tinapa flakes (smoked fish)
- Cooked shrimps, shelled
- Squid adobo, sliced into rings
- Pork chicharon, grounded
- Spring onions, chopped
- Hard boiled eggs, shelled, sliced
- Fried garlic, minced
- Fresh calamansi (lemon), sliced
Pansit Palabok Cooking Instructions:
- Extract fat and meat from clean crabs, set aside.
- Pound crab and extract juice on 1 1/2 cups of water
- On a pan, sauté garlic and onions until golden brown then add crab fat, crab meat, 1 1/2 cups of crab wash, patis and MSG. Bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Add corn starch and continue to simmer while constantly stirring until thick.
- Put miki noodles in a strainer and dip in boiling water for 5 minutes or until cooked.
- Lay drained noodles on a platter and pour the palabok sauce. Garnish with toppings and serve.
If you think it’s kinda hard to make, you can also buy it in any Filipino Restaurants.
Just wanna Share 🙂
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