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''Dinuguan'' () is a
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savory
stew A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients that have been cooked in liquid and served in the resultant gravy. A stew needs to have raw ingredients added to the gravy. Ingredients in a stew can include any combination of vegetables and ...
usually of pork
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(typically lungs, kidneys, intestines, ears, heart and snout) and/or meat
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in a rich, spicy dark
gravy Gravy is a sauce often made from the juices of meats that run naturally during cooking and often thickened with wheat flour or corn starch for added texture. The gravy may be further coloured and flavoured with gravy salt (a simple mix of salt an ...
of pig
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,
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, chili (most often ''
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''), and
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.


Etymology and names

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
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translations include pork blood stew or blood pudding stew. ''Dinuguan'' is also called ''sinugaok'' in
Batangas Batangas, officially the Province of Batangas ( tl, Lalawigan ng Batangas ), is a province in the Philippines located in the Calabarzon region on Luzon. Its capital is the city of Batangas, and is bordered by the provinces of Cavite and La ...
, ''zinagan'' in Ibanag, ''twik'' in Itawis, ''tid-tad'' in
Kapampangan Kapampangan, Capampañgan or Pampangan may refer to: *Kapampangan people of the Philippines *Kapampangan language Kapampangan or Pampangan is an Austronesian language, and one of the eight major languages of the Philippines. It is the primary ...
, ''dinardaraan'' in Ilocano, ''dugo-dugo'' in Cebuano, ''rugodugo'' in Waray, ''sampayna'' or ''champayna'' in
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and ''tinumis'' in
Bulacan Bulacan, officially the Province of Bulacan ( tl, Lalawigan ng Bulacan), is a province in the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is the city of Malolos. Bulacan was established on August 15, 1578, and part of the Metr ...
and
Nueva Ecija Nueva Ecija, officially the Province of Nueva Ecija ( tgl, Lalawigan ng Nueva Ecija , also ; ilo, Probinsia ti Nueva Ecija; pag, Luyag/Probinsia na Nueva Ecija; Kapampangan: ''Lalawigan/Probinsia ning Nueva Ecija''), is a landlocked province i ...
. A euphemism for this dish is "chocolate meat". ''Dinuguan'' is also found in the
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, believed to have been introduced to the islands by Filipino immigrants, where it is known locally as ''Fritada''.


Description

This dish is rather similar to European-style
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, or British and Irish
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in a saucy stew form. It is perhaps closer in appearance and preparation to the
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soup
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or an even more ancient
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n dish known as ''melas zomos'' (
black soup Black soup was a regional cuisine of ancient Sparta, made with boiled pork meat and blood, using only salt and vinegar to flavour. The soup was well known during antiquity in the Greek world, but no original recipe of the dish survives today.Maci ...
) whose primary ingredients were pork, vinegar and blood. ''Dinuguan'' can also be served without using any
offal Offal (), also called variety meats, pluck or organ meats, is the organs of a butchered animal. The word does not refer to a particular list of edible organs, which varies by culture and region, but usually excludes muscle. Offal may also refe ...
, using only choice cuts of pork. In
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, 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
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or a Philippine rice cake called '' puto''. The Northern
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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 The Itawes, Itawis, Hitawit or Itawit (endonym) are a group of people living in the Philippines. Their name is derived from the Itawes prefix ''i-'' meaning "people of" and ''tawid'' or "across the river". The Itawes are among the earliest inhabi ...
of Cagayan also have a pork-based version that has larger meat chunks and more fat, which they call ''twik''. The most important ingredient of the ''dinuguan'' recipe, pig's blood, is used in many other Asian cuisines either as coagulated blood acting as a meat extender or as a mixture for the broth itself. Pork ''dinuguan'' is the latter. The dish is not consumed by religious groups that have
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s prohibiting the consumption of blood, most notably the indigenous Iglesia Ni Cristo,
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,
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, and Filipino Jews.


Preparation


Serving suggestions


List of other regional variations

Other regional variants of ''dinuguan'' include: * In Aklan, it is called ''dinuguan sa batwan'', using the '' batwan'' fruit. * In Bulacan, it is called ''serkele/sirkele'', a specialty similar in ingredients to ''dinuguan'' but without pig's blood and using beef internal organs; soupy and on the sour side; other reports cow blood is used. * In Marinduque, a local variant known as ''kari-kari'' is cooked with the same ingredients but is stewed until almost dry before the pork blood is added. * In Bicol, it is called ''tinutungang dinuguan'', meaning, it contains coconut milk and chilies; it is called such because coconut milk is added, and charcoal embers are used to  cook the milk until curdling point at which it forms creamy reduction or ''latik''. * In Capiz, ''dinuguan na manok sa pinulipot nga abalong''. * In Cebu, ''dugo-dugo'', which has itself many versions, with some adding cubes of solidified blood, just like in Pampanga's ''tid-tad'', and other versions omitting the pork liver from the dish while the innards are chopped so finely down to the millimetre, so that the end result is a pork blood stew without the recognizable ingredients. * In the Ilocos Region, in San Nicolas, it is a crispy ''dinuguan'' that uses bagnet slices. While in Ilocos Norte, it is called ''mollo'', a brownish and watery version of ''dinuguan''. * In Laguna, ''dinuguang kalabaw'', ''dinuguan'' using the more flavorful "
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". * In Leyte (Southern), it is mixed with banana blossoms and pig's blood. * In Manila, ''dinuguan sa usbong ng sampalok'', a Tagalog blood stew with young tamarind leaves. * In Masbate, it is called ''sinanglay'', where they add ''tanglad'' (lemongrass). * In
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, it is called ''sampayna'' or ''champayna'' and also uses lemongrass. * In Pampanga, ''dinuguang puti'', synonym for ''tidtad babi'' which is not black or brown unlike the usual ''dinuguan'' because the blood is torn into pieces by hand after it curdles. * In Pangasinan, it is called ''baguisen''; it uses '' kamias'' as a souring agent; the offal is washed with detergent then boiled in guava leaves to get rid of the smell; in Barangay Inirangan, Bayambang, they include ''upo'' slices in their ''baguisen''. * In Quezon Province, it is called ''pirihil'', a ''dinuguan'' of chicken gizzard, heart and liver. * In Visayas, called ''paklay'', a Visayan blood stew of blood and intestine of goat, but a little bit drier. * In Zamboanga/Basilan or Cavite (
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), "Chavacano-style ''dinuguan''", which uses ''tuba'' (sugar cane) vinegar and contains crushed oregano leaves.


See also

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Beutelwurst A ''Beutelwurst'' is a German blood sausage (''Rotwurst'' or ''Blutwurst''), which contains more pieces of fat and flour than a normal ''Thüringer Rotwurst''. The name ''Beutelwurst'' comes from the fact that this does not come in a casing of ...
*
Black soup Black soup was a regional cuisine of ancient Sparta, made with boiled pork meat and blood, using only salt and vinegar to flavour. The soup was well known during antiquity in the Greek world, but no original recipe of the dish survives today.Maci ...
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Blood as food Many cultures consume blood, often in combination with meat. The blood may be in the form of blood sausage, as a thickener for sauces, a cured salted form for times of food scarcity, or in a blood soup. This is a product from domesticated an ...
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Blood soup Blood soup is any soup that uses blood as a principal ingredient. List of blood soups Examples of blood stew include: * Black soup, a historical pork-blood soup of Ancient Greek cuisine particularly associated with ancient Sparta. * Chicken a ...
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List of stews This is a list of notable stews. A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients that have been Cooking, cooked in liquid and served in the resultant gravy. Ingredients in a stew can include any combination of vegetables (such as carrots, potato ...
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Saksang Saksang or sa-sang is a savory, spicy Indonesian dish from the Batak people. It is made from minced pork or dog meat (or, more rarely, water buffalo meat) stewed in its blood, coconut milk and spices; including kaffir lime and bay leaves, coria ...
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Sarapatel Sarapatel (, ), or Sorpotel, is a dish of Portuguese origin now commonly cooked in the coastal Konkan region of India, primarily Goa, Mangalore and East Indians of Mumbai Sarpatel. The former Estado da Índia Portuguesa colony. It is also pr ...
* Svartsoppa


References

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