Famous Filipino- Style Pancit Bihon Recipe

Even if I will not ask you, this kind of Filipino-style Pancit bihon is one of the common recipes that you had eaten plenty of times, right? However, although we ate this frequently; we use to prepare pancit bihon recipe in any special occasion like birthday’s and party.
The basis why most Filipino wants to prepare pancit in special occasion like birthdays is that it symbolizes long life and good health to the birthday celebrant. That’s why the majority Filipino prepare pancit during birthday celebration.

Online researched will provide you various pancit recipes like pancit batchoy, pancit bihon guisado, pancit canton, pancit lomi, pancit luglug, pancit palabok and a lot more. All of them symbolize long life as well as good health. But usually, birthday celebration preferred pancit bihon or pancit bam-e (a mixture of bihon and canton/fresh pancit.

As a short background of this recipe, pancit or pansit is the word for noodles in Filipino cooking. Noodles were initiated into the Philippines through the Chinese along with have been accepted into neighboring cuisine. The word pancit is consequential from the Hokkien pian i sit (which means "something conveniently cooked fast). 

Ingredients

1 lb. chicken, 1 lb. pork and 1/3 lb. med. shrimp, shell and cut 1/2 inch

1/4 c. vegetable oil

1 med. onion, thin sliced

1 tbsp. fish sauce

1 c. cabbage, finely shredded

1/2 c. celery cut in thin strips

1/2 tsp. salt

1 1/2 c. broth from chicken and pork

1 lb. Bihon (rice sticks) soaked in hot water 15 minutes or until soft then drained and set aside

2 cloves garlic, crushed

2 tbsp. soy sauce

1 c. French cut green beans

1 carrot, cut into matchsticks

1/8 tsp. pepper

1 tsp. MSG, optional/seasoning

Procedure in cooking

First, boil chicken and pork in 1 1/2 cups water intended for 15 minutes. Then, drain set aside sou/broth. Slice meats into little pieces, remove any bones. The next step is ready all additional ingredients independently on a tray. In hot oil, sauté onion until turns transparent; add garlic mix few minutes, put meats, and mix fry for 5 minutes. After that, add shrimp, soy and fish sauces, mix again and cook for 5 minutes. On high heat, add green beans, cabbage, carrots and celery mix frying with each addition. Then, seasoned it, you will add broth 1 cup to begin, let it boil and then add rice sticks, trim down heat headed for low as well as mix and cook for 3 minutes. If too dry, you can add more broth. Lastly, move to a hot serving dish as well as decorate with solid boiled egg wedges, sliced green onions, plus lemon wedges and soy and fish sauces on the side. Serve while hot.

Pancit bihon is good in snacks as sandwich or a viand with plain rice.