Halabos na Hipon
This dish reminds me of family beach summers in the Philippines where it is customary to bring and cook your own food as resort restaurants tend to be expensive specially when there are a lot of you in the family dining in together. Halabos na Hipon and grilled fish are some examples of the dishes served commonly during summer beach outings / picnics as you can enjoy them fresh, cheap and preparation is close to none. Now I say fresh because every morning the common scene in beach resorts are fishermen who just landed on the shore after an overnight fishing unloading their freshest catch, so if you are having a morning walk you will definitely not miss this out as lots of them show up at around 8AM. Now it is cheap since this came from the fishermen and not from the market, a lot of times you can even bargain further specially if you buy lots of them. Finally the preparation is so easy as all you need is to borrow a wok from the cottage caretakers, the ingredients are as simple as a fizzy lemon drink such as 7-up or Sprite, salt, pepper, garlic and fresh shrimps, put the wok on top of a charcoal barbecue and your good to go! Enjoy it with green mango salad or salted eggs and tomato salad and eat it with your hands using banana leaf as your plate.
Ingredients
700g fresh shrimps or prawns
1/2 can lemon soda (7-Up or Sprite)
1 head garlic, minced
oil
salt
pepper
Method
1. Heat a wok on high heat then and add oil.
2. Sauté garlic then add shrimps. Give it a quick stir don’t cook it yet.
3. Add soda; bring it to a boil until it is reduced. Make sure you are in high heat to reduce the liquid faster, if you do this in low heat the shrimps might overcook and the shrimp shell will stick on the meat making it hard to eat.
4. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Wow halabos………paborito ng nanay ko yan…
a classic!
I love going to the beach… Never thought we could bring something like this.
Now you given me an idea somewhere is always around the corner.
These shrimp looks suburb!
This is very simple. I’m going to have to try!
Cooked with SODA?!?!! Wow!! Sounds delicious and looks like it doesn’t require too much work! Perfect meal with some rice!
Love the photo, those look like happy shrimp. Or shrimp about to make someone happy
I am a huge fan of shrimp and this recipe sounds fabulous. The peels and heads on my freak me out a bit though. Well, maybe for a minute or two anyway.
Oh this is really unique to me. I can’t imagine the taste. Only one way to find out. Looks great.
Soda is quite an interesting ingredient! I bet it lends a lot of flavor to those awesome prawns!
Ingenious!
I am such a shrimp lover, that I know I will absolutely love this recipe. The shrimp just look amazing.
love this! Simple yet so yummy
Wow, this sounds incredible!
Mandy
Halabos na hipon is one of the simplest way to eat fresh shrimp. This deliciously done, Raymund. Have a good weekend!
Another interesting recipe I’ve seen in the last week or so using lemonade! I love prawns cooked in salted water – you can taste the sea then, but this soulds good too as honey prawns are my other favourites and these seem to be nice and sweet.
I love how this dish takes really common ingredients and makes them into something completely original and unexpected — I can totally see this is good cookout food!
SUPER easy. This will appear on our dining table pretty soon. =)
yeah, one of the things i love in philippines.. bargaining for fresh seafoods straight from the fisherman…
Very nice and simple. Certainly I learn that soda can be combined into prawns for a lovely outcome.
I’m gonna let my cook try this out. I love this recipe but then our new cook can’t seem to get how it’s done. Thanks!
What a fabulous idea to cook the shrimp in lemonade !