Easy Halabos Na Hipon Recipe (With Dipping Sauce)

Halabos na Hipon is a Filipino cooking process consisting of fresh shrimp cooked in water and salt. Modern versions of the dish commonly add spices and use carbonated lemon drinks instead of water for a sweeter sauce.

Halabos (also spelled halbus, hablos, or halbos) is a verb meaning “to scald in saltwater” in the Tagalog language.

Halabos is one of the easiest and most common way of preparing crustacean dishes in the Philippines. Traditionally, it only requires boiling whole unshelled shrimp, crab, or other crustaceans in water and a little salt for one to three minutes until they turn reddish-pink. Nothing else is added, and the ingredients are allowed to stew in their own juices. However, modern versions generally use carbonated lemon drinks like Sprite instead of water. Spices may also be added like chilis and garlic. Butter may also be added.

Halabos dishes are usually prefixed by “halabos na”. Examples of halabos dishes include halabos na hipon or halabos na sugpo (shrimp or prawns), halabos na alimango (mud crab), halabos na alimasag (blue swimmer crab), and halabos na ulang (lobster or giant river prawns). A specialty in Zamboanga is halabos na curacha which is made from curacha (the spanner crab, Ranina ranina).

From Wikipedia

Recipe for Halabos Na Hipon:

Easy Halabos Na Hipon Recipe (With Dipping Sauce)

Recipe by Yummy FoodCourse: Main, AppetizersCuisine: FilipinoDifficulty: Easy

Servings

4

servings

Prep time

15

minutes

Cooking time

15

minutes

Total time

30

minutes

Halabos na Hipon is a Filipino cooking process consisting of fresh shrimp cooked in water and salt. Modern versions of the dish commonly add spices and use carbonated lemon drinks instead of water for a sweeter sauce.

Ingredients

• 1 Kilo Shrimps

• 3 tbsp salt

• 6 cups water

• cooking oil for sauteing

• For the Dipping Sauce:

• 4 tbsp Vinegar

• 1 tsp Salt

• Siling Labuyo / Chili (optional)

Directions

• In a wok, bring water to a boil.
• Add salt and shrimps. Cook for 3-5 minutes.
• Remove the shrimps from the water.
• In a separate pan, fry the shrimps at least 2 minutes on both sides.
• Serve with dipping sauce. Enjoy!

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