Ligang Pasku
This Kapampángan Christmas dish has not 1, not 2, but 3 kinds of meat in it: beef, pork, and chicken! It’s said to be the result of combining the meat leftovers from noche buena (Christmas Eve meal)!
LÍGANG PASKU • (LEE-guhng puhs-KU)
a Kapampángan Christmas soup dish prepared with boiled beef, pork, chicken, and assorted vegetables, and flavored with Chinese ham bones and Spanish chorizo
Tagálog (Filipino): Nilágang Paskó
Kapampángan Christmas Dish:
Lígang Pasku
Lígang Pasku is a Kapampángan Christmas soup dish made by boiling pieces of different types of meat: beef, pork, and chicken, with an assortment of vegetables and deeply flavored with Chinese ham bones or Spanish chorizo. It’s said to be the result of combining meat leftovers from noche buena, the Christmas Eve meal.
Root Word
LÁGÂ • (LAH-ga’)
to cook by boiling in water with certain ingredients
Tagálog (Filipino): lágà
Verb Conjugation
ilágâ, lalágâ, linágâ/lígâ – to cook by boiling in water with certain ingredients (Object Focus)
maglágâ, máglágâ, méglágâ – to cook by boiling in water with certain ingredients (Actor Focus)
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