Halabós is a Filipino cooking process consisting of fresh shrimp, crab, or other crustaceans cooked in water and salt. Modern versions of the dish commonly add spices and use carbonatedlemon drinks instead of water for a sweeter sauce.
Halabós 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 carbonatedlemon drinks like Sprite instead of water. Spices may also be added like chilis and garlic. Butter may also be added.[3][4][5]
Halabós dishes are usually prefixed by "halabós na". Examples of halabós dishes include halabós na hiponorhalabos na sugpo (shrimporprawns), halabós na alimango (mud crab), halabós na alimasag (blue swimmer crab), and halabos na ulang (lobster or giant river prawns).[1][6][7][8] A specialty in Zamboangaishalabos na curacha which is made from curacha (the spanner crab, Ranina ranina).[9]
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