Mama Sita's

Achuete Recipes

5 recipes made with Mama Sita’s Achuete

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Achuete (annatto) powder comes from the powdery coating of annatto seeds. It gives a dish a mildly sweet, nutty flavor and a color from yellow-orange to red-orange, depending on how much you use. These recipes use it in bihon guisado, paella, callos, sweet and sour pork, and a sunrise pichi-pichi (cassava coconut dessert).

All Achuete Recipes

Stir-fried rice vermicelli with shrimp, carrot, and scallion on a banana leaf-lined tray

Bihon Guisado

Stir-Fried Vermicelli

  • Cooking time: Cook 12 min
  • Yield: 5-7
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
Paella Filipina with crab, mussels, shrimp, and squid in a black pan

Paella Filipina

  • Cooking time: Cook 22 min
  • Yield: 8-10
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
Callos stew with tripe, chorizo, chickpeas, olives, and bell peppers in a tomato sauce

Callos

Spicy Tripe Casserole

  • Cooking time: Cook 3 hr 15 min
  • Yield: 8-10
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
Sweet and sour pork with red and green bell pepper and carrot over rice in a white bowl

Sweet and Sour Pork

  • Preparation time: Prep 2 hr 20 min
  • Cooking time: Cook 9 min
  • Yield: 5-7
  • Difficulty: Intermediate