Pancit Palabok

Rice noodles cooked in anato seeds, usually served with hard-boiled egg, chicharon, spring onions, and lime. All time favorite of Filipino as snack or miryenda.It also seen in many Filipino occasion's.

Ingredients:

8 oz Rice Noodles or Bihon
1/2 pound Shrimps, shelled and deveined, and cooked
2-3 piecesTinapa or Salted Smoked Fish, cooked, deboned and flaked
1/4 pound ground pork
3 tablespoons Achuete (Annato) Seeds
3-4 stalks Green Onions, sliced fine
6 cloves Garlic, minced and fried
3 tablespoons Cornstarch, dissolved in 1/4 cup water
5 cups Water
2 tablespoons Fish Sauce or Patis
1/2 teaspoon Ground Pepper
3-4 Eggs, boiled, shelled and cut in wedges
1/4 cup Cooking Oil

How to Cook:

• Boil the noodles in a water for 2-3 minutes or until the noodles are soft but not soggy. Drain the noodles and set aside.
• In a small pan, steep the achuete seeds on the heated oil to extract the color. Strain, and leave 2 tablespoons oil on the pan.
• Using 2 tablespoons of the oil, fry the ground pork with a teaspoon fish sauce until golden brown. Set aside.
• Using a separate pan, boil the shrimp shells with the water for 3-4 minutes, strain and dispose the shells.
• Thicken with the cornstarch mixture and add the remaining achuete oil.
• Stir in 2 tablespoons Tinapa flakes, and season with ground pepper.
• Assemble on a plate in this order, Noodles, Sauce,Tinapa Flakes,Shrimp, Ground Meat, Fried Garlic, Boiled Egg,Green Onion.