Sa di pollo ma pollo non è. Dimmi cos’è? Con questa filastrocca, cari amici, voglio portare in tavola il “Betute Tugak” cioè la rana filippina fritta e farcita. Vi assicuro che il sapore è molto delicato. Finalmente una gustosa variante esotica al solito pollo fritto!
Betute or Stuffed frog in english is one of the Pampanga’s or Kapampangan exotic dishes found in Northern Luzon Region in the Philippines. They also call this as “tugak” in Kapampangan’s dialect which means frog. It tastes like chicken and it’s really good.
Farmers in Pampanga used to depend on rain water to irrigate their farms. Children catch the frogs, which came out during the rainy season, while their parents cultivated the land or planted rice. Outwitting the frogs has been a traditional “family bonding” ritual. Betute is a play of words on butete, which means “tadpole” in the local dialect. Betute is the entire frog stuffed with minced pork, so it looks like a very fat frog. The most common way of preparing frog is to fry it, or to turn it into adobo it is a kind of stew where the meat is cooked in garlic, oil, vinegar, and laurel leaves.
Though frogs’ legs are considered a delicacy in other parts of the world, frog dishes are made slightly differently in the Philippines.
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