maguindanao delicacies | MAGUINDANAO PRIDE

1. Tinapayan – salted fish with fermented rice

2. Dudol –

3. Tinadtag – looks like crispy bihon noodles shaped in a triangle. It is made of finely ground rice mixed with sugar and fried until it is a crisp golden brown. To make tinagtag, the rice flour is soaked in clean water for a few minutes until it forms a sticky mixture. Then, it is placed in a coconut bowl with small holes, called a pangulayan. Using a circling motion, the cook then lets the mixture trickle through the holes into a pan of boiling oil, traditionally virgin coconut oil, to form a round shape. When the tinagtag is crisp, it is taken out with a wooden ladle called a gagawi, and placed on a tray where it is folded into a wedge shape. This whole cooking process is accompanied by the rhythmic sound of balabad (wooden sticks) drumming on a dabakan (a cask covered with animal skin). (from WikiPilipinas).