Filipino Style

Bring Filipino flavors and techniques into every meal with 80 easy and approachable recipes for any day of the week, from the social media sensation behind Iankewks.

While Ian Rivero was in nursing school, he needed recipes that could come together in a matter of minutes. He would throw together adobo rice bowls and spicy calamansi noodles, using ingredients readily available in his fridge and pantry and posting his creations to social media. What started off as sharing his go-to Filipino-inspired meals has grown into the massive platform Iankewks, where Ian connects with followers around the world who are looking for approachable and adaptable ways to recreate Filipino flavors at home. In Filipino Style, Ian shares 80 delicious recipes alongside the best tips for bringing classic and reimagined Filipino dishes to the table with confidence and creativity.

Ian grew up in Canada, where access to the freshest Filipino ingredients his parents grew up with weren’t always available. Because of this, he and his family learned how to adapt favorite Filipino dishes using what they had access to without compromising on flavor, like using lemon or lime to get a close match to calamansi juice or using Chinese light or Japanese soy sauce to form a similar flavor to the thinner and saltier Filipino soy sauce. The 80 recipes in Filipino Style reflect Ian’s fluid style of cooking, offering clear measurements and detailed methods while also encouraging you to create your own swaps and additions based off what’s around. Sprinkled throughout are sidebars and essays that cover topics like how to best prepare banana leaves for cooking and what types of sawsawans you can prep to serve alongside your meal. Recipes include:

• Classics like Pancit Canton, Lumpiang Shanghai, Atchara, and Tortang Talong
• Reimagined dishes like Dad’s Garlicky Breakfast Rice, Toasty Puto, Fizzy Salabat, and Golden Halo Halo
• Meals bursting with Filipino-forward flavors like Calamansi Shrimp, Sticky Adobo Brussels Sprouts, and Champorado Latte

From the rich, peanuty sauce of kare kare to the bright tamarind tang of sinigang, Filipino Style showcases the bold, comforting flavors of Filipino cuisine while also showing you just how approachable it is to bring these salty-sweet-umami flavors into your week.

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