PINAPUTOK NA TILAPIA RECIPE

Filipinos have a penchant for weird sounding recipes. Pinaputok na Tilapia, at first read, is a curious recipe in that one would wonder what one means by the name. Literally, pinaputok means “burst” or “explode” so one would think what the cooking preparation would entail. There are two versions as to why the dish is named as such. One would say that the fish in this Pinaputok na Tilapia recipe is stuffed so much up to its bursting limit. Another would say that in the process of deep-frying, the fish has inside the cover has a tendency to have that popping sound, akin to something exploding; thus, the name Pinaputok.

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