Kapampangan Specialty · Stuffed Frog
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Cooks stuff the whole frog with a seasoned pork filling before frying it — legs, skin, and all — so the finished dish looks intact until it's cut open.
Whole rice-field frogs are deboned and packed with a seasoned ground-pork or shrimp filling, then deep-fried until the skin crisps around the stuffing. Towns across Pampanga serve it as a specialty appetizer, and San Fernando even hosts an annual Frog Festival built around it.
Why it's made this way: Frogs proliferate in Pampanga's rice paddies alongside camaru, and Kapampangan cooks turned another abundant local ingredient into a distinctive regional delicacy rarely found outside the province.
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