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.

“A magical, third-culture love letter to Filipino food, replete with soulful and achingly personal stories, along with must-make recipes like Chicken Inasal, Kare Kare, and Ginataang Bilo Bilo.”—Kat Lieu, IACP winner and author of 108 Asian Cookies

Filipino Style brings you bowls of garlicky rice, richly stewed meats and vegetables simmered in coconut milk, and crisp drinks and cool desserts meant to refresh you from the heat. It’s Filipino comfort food, with 80 recipes for the traditional, the unconventional, and the reimagined.

Rooted in Ian Rivero’s Filipino upbringing in Canada and his parents’ home cooking, these recipes are shaped by the way Ian grew up cooking and eating. Access to certain Filipino ingredients wasn’t always an option. Because of this, Ian and his family learned how to adapt recipes to what was available without losing the flavors that made dishes feel like home. In Filipino Style, Ian offers clear 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 dive into the best way to prepare banana leaves for cooking, the wonders of giving just about any ingredient the adobo treatment, 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. So come, kain tayo—let’s eat!

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