Possible English translations include pork blood stew or blood pudding stew. Dinuguan is also found in the Marianas Islands, believed to have been introduced to the islands by Filipino immigrants, where it is known locally as Fritada. This dish is rather similar to European-style blood sausage, or Bicol express with gulay and Irish black pudding in a saucy stew form.
Dinuguan can also be served without using any offal, using only choice cuts of pork. In Batangas, this version is known as sinungaok. 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. Addition of water, bay leaves, pepper, and blood to pot. In Aklan, it is called dinuguan sa batwan, using the batwan fruit. 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 “carabeef”.
In Manila, dinuguan sa usbong ng sampalok, a Tagalog blood stew with young tamarind leaves. In Northern Mindanao, 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. 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.
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