Dinuguan

Dinuguan

File:Dinuguan with puto.jpg A bowl of dinuguan and a plate of puto.
Origin
Alternative name(s)	Pork blood stew, blood pudding stew, chocolate meat
Place of origin	Philippines
Details
Course served	Main course
Serving temperature	Hot
Main ingredient(s)	Pork, pig's blood, vinegar, garlic, siling mahaba

Dinuguan (in Visayan, also called dinardaraan in Ilocano, tid-tad in Pampanga, dugo-dugo in Cebuano, sinugaok in Batangas, rugodugo in Waray, sampayna or champayna in Northern Mindanao and tinumis in Bulacan and Nueva Ecija) is a Filipino savory stew of meat and/or offal (typically lungs, kidneys, intestines, ears, heart and snout) simmered in a rich, spicy dark gravy of pig blood, garlic, chili (most often siling mahaba), and vinegar.

Etymology

The most popular term dinuguan and other regional naming variants come from their respective word for "blood" (e.g. "dugo" in Tagalog means "blood" hence "dinuguan" as "to be stewed with blood"). Possible English translations include pork blood stew or blood pudding stew.

It is frequently considered an unusual or alarming dish to foreigners though it is rather similar to European-style blood sausage, or British black pudding in a saucy stew form. It is perhaps closer in appearance and preparation to the Polish soup Czernina or an even more ancient Spartan dish known as melas zomos (black soup) whose primary ingredients were pork, vinegar and blood.

Dinuguan can also be served without using any offal, using only choice cuts of pork. In Batangas, this version is known as sinungaok. It can also be made from beef and chicken meat, the latter being known as dinuguang manok ('chicken dinuguan'). Dinuguan is usually served with white rice or a Philippine rice cake called puto. The Northern Luzon versions of the dish namely the Ilocano dinardaraan and the Ibanag zinagan are often drier with toppings of deep-fried pork intestine cracklings. The Itawes of Cagayan also have a pork-based version that has larger meat chunks and more fat, which they call twik.

• Dinuguan
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  Serkele (Baliuag special Dinuguan)

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  Special Baliuag, Bulacan dinuguan (in bread)

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  Dinuguan in SM City Baliwag food contest

See also

• Beutelwurst
• Blood soup
• List of stews
• Svartsoppa
• Saksang
• Sarapatel