PINIKPIKAN AT BOMOD-OK FALLS
Let's have a cooking lesson, shall we? 😂
If you've been to the Cordilleras, this dish is as synonymous as the Rice Terraces to Banaue. So it would be interesting to learn a bit about it. Our tour guides, happened to suggest we would have pinikpikan for lunch in Bomod-ok Falls. bring some etag a live chicken, and uncooked rice for our Bomod-Ok Falls trek.
So on our long way to the falls, we gathered the ingredients along the way. Pretty cool. We bought rice. We bought etag at some small shop (very salty cured pork meat). Then a live chicken at another shop. About halfway to the trek, some cabbages. Ingredients complete.
Note:
12 Steps of Cooking Pinikpikan 😂
1. Gather some twigs and woods for fire.
2. Beat the sh*t out of the chicken. Sorry Peta. I know this is beyond cruelty.
3. Put the chicken over the flame.
4. In a group effort, remove the feathers.
5. Repeat the process: flaming and skinning the bird.
6. Take the innards out and chop the chicken using a metal scrap.
7. Wash the innards in the nearby stream. Add it to the dish later.
8. Add mountain spring water to the rice for cooking.
9. Dump the cooked rice onto banana leaves and use the casserole for the chicken dish.
10. Cover the cooked rice with some wild ferns to protect it from the elements.
11. Add greens to the dish for the final touch.
12. Viola! Chicken Ala-Montagne. Bon Appetit!
And for more primeval effect, a bamboo stick plus the bottom half of a plastic bottle was utilized as a serving spoon for the soup. Banana trunks for plates. All worked out great! Quite ingenious, these Igorot guys.
This trek happened prior to my being a plant-based eater!
12 Steps of Cooking Pinikpikan 😂
1. Gather some twigs and woods for fire.
2. Beat the sh*t out of the chicken. Sorry Peta. I know this is beyond cruelty.
3. Put the chicken over the flame.
4. In a group effort, remove the feathers.
5. Repeat the process: flaming and skinning the bird.
6. Take the innards out and chop the chicken using a metal scrap.
7. Wash the innards in the nearby stream. Add it to the dish later.
8. Add mountain spring water to the rice for cooking.
9. Dump the cooked rice onto banana leaves and use the casserole for the chicken dish.
10. Cover the cooked rice with some wild ferns to protect it from the elements.
11. Add greens to the dish for the final touch.
12. Viola! Chicken Ala-Montagne. Bon Appetit!
And for more primeval effect, a bamboo stick plus the bottom half of a plastic bottle was utilized as a serving spoon for the soup. Banana trunks for plates. All worked out great! Quite ingenious, these Igorot guys.
