Dinuguan

Dinuguan

A bowl of dinuguan and a plate of puto.
Alternative names	Pork blood stew, blood pudding stew, chocolate meat
Course	Main course
Place of origin	Philippines
Serving temperature	Hot
Main ingredients	Pork offal, pig's blood, vinegar, garlic, siling mahaba

Dinuguan is a Filipino savory stew of pork offal (typically lungs, kidneys, intestines, ears, heart and snout) and/or meat simmered in a rich, spicy dark gravy of pig blood, garlic, chili (most often siling mahaba), and vinegar.

The most popular term dinuguan and other regional naming variants come from their respective word for "blood" (e.g. "dugo" in Tagalog means "blood" hence "dinuguan" as "to be stewed with blood"). Possible English translations include pork blood stew or blood pudding stew.

Dinuguan is also called dinardaraan in Ilocano, tid-tad in Pampanga, dugo-dugo in Cebuano, rugodugo in Waray, sampayna or champayna in Northern Mindanao and tinumis in Bulacan and Nueva Ecija.

It is frequently considered an unusual or alarming dish to foreigners though it is rather similar to European-style blood sausage, or British and Irish black pudding in a saucy stew form. It is perhaps closer in appearance and preparation to the Polish soup Czernina or an even more ancient Spartan dish known as melas zomos (black soup) whose primary ingredients were pork, vinegar and blood.