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Filipino Noodle Dish topped with shrimp gravy and garnish
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Pancit Luglug

Pancit Luglug is a Filipino noodle dish topped and smothered with creamy shrimp sauce and garnished with seafood and other ingredients and a side serving of sliced calamansi or lemon, fish sauce and toasted garlic.
Course Main Course, Snack
Cuisine Asian, Filipino
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings 4
Calories 670kcal

Ingredients

  • 1 package 8oz 227g Luglug cornstarch stick or thin cornstarch noodles
  • ¾ pound ground pork
  • ¼ cup annatto seeds diluted in ¼ cup water or ½ teaspoon powdered annatto seeds
  • 4 or 5 cups shrimp stock
  • 5 tablespoons fish sauce (patis)
  • ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 8 cloves of garlic minced
  • 1 medium-sized onion minced
  • 1 ½ cups pork rinds chicharon pounded
  • ¾ pound shrimp peeled
  • ¼ to ½ pound small squid (pusit), cut into rounds
  • 3 tablespoons tinapa flakes (smoked herring)
  • 1 piece lemon or 6 calamansi sliced
  • 3 pieces hard boiled eggs sliced
  • ¼ cup toasted garlic
  • 4-5 tablespoons cornstarch diluted in 4 tablespoons water.
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • 8 cups water
US Customary - Metric

Instructions

  • Soak Luglug noodles (cornstarch stick) in water for ½ an hour or longer.
    Add 8 cups water in a large pot and bring water to a boil. Submerge Luglug noodles for 4 to 5 minutes or when desired texture is obtained.
    Follow the instructions provided on the package. Drain and set aside.
  • In a pan, heat oil over medium to low heat.
  • Fry the trimmings. Cook shrimp till pink. Remove from pan and set aside.
  • Fry squid for 2 minutes. Don’t overcook as it will get rubbery. Set aside.
  • Fry tinapa until golden. When cool, shred the into flakes.
    Note: Discard head and skin or put it in a sealed cheese cloth bag, sautéed with the ground pork for added gravy flavor. Remove bag when ready to serve.
  • On the same pan, saute onion until soft and translucent.
  • Add garlic. Cook until golden.
  • Toss-in ground pork and cook until pale or light brown.
  • Add tinapa head and skin in bag, if desired.
  • Stir-in the shrimp fat and meat extracted from the shrimp head. The mixture will turn bright orange.
  • Add fish sauce.
  • Add annatto powder or annatto water.
  • Season with ground black pepper.
  • Pour shrimp stock and bring to a boil.
  • Simmer for 15 minutes over low heat.
  • Slowly stir-in cornstarch diluted in water until sauce turns thick. Simmer for 3 minutes and continue stirring. Note: Add more cornstarch mixture if sauce is still not thick.
  • Add fish sauce or salt to taste.
  • Turn off heat.
  • When ready to serve, if noodles are no longer warm, place enough noodles in a strainer and briefly submerge it in boiling water. Then transfer to a plate or platter.
  • Ladle shrimp gravy on top of noodles.
  • Evenly spread the following garnish on top of noodles and gravy: Shrimp, Squid, Sliced Eggs, Green Onions & Tinapa Flakes. Note: Depending on your preference, you can add the tinapa flakes in the gravy or use it as garnish.
  • Serve the following on the side: chicharon bits (pounded), toasted garlic, chopped green onions, sliced lemon or calamansi and fish sauce. Enjoy!

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Notes

  1. Keep noodle texture firm and not overcooked.
  2. Refrigerate leftover pancit luglug sauce.
 

Nutrition

Calories: 670kcal | Carbohydrates: 16g | Protein: 45g | Fat: 23g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 354mg | Sodium: 550mg | Potassium: 548mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin C: 24mg | Calcium: 181mg | Iron: 3mg