stylistically spelled aligue to make it seem like a Spanish word

phonetically spelled in orthodox Tagalog as alige

aligi
crab eggs / roe


aligi
unfertilized eggs from a crab's ovary


mag-aligi
to spawn (not common)


Aligi refers to the eggs of the female alimango crab. It is often referred to as taba (fat).

The Tagalog for 'egg' is itlog but that word is usually reserved for bird eggs.


* The unfertilized eggs of a lobster is called "coral" and that is why aligi is sometimes translated as crab coral.


Popular Filipino dishes that use aligi as a main ingredient:

aligue mixed with  rice

aligue sa gata (in coconut milk)

tomato aligue pasta

talangkanin (rice with fat from small crabs)