Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pinakbet. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pinakbet Tagalog is a Filipino dish made of pork and vegetables such as eggplant, okra, bitter melon, long beans, and calabasa. It's a delicious and nutritious dish served as a main entree or a side to fried fish or grilled meat. It is composed of a variety of vegetables and it also has a protein component.
Pinakbet is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Pinakbet is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pinakbet using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pinakbet:
- Prepare 6 pcs eggplant (medium size)
- Take 4 pcs lady fingers/ okra (medium size)
- Get 1/4 kg squash
- Make ready 4 pcs long chilli
- Prepare 1 pc bitter gourd
- Make ready 1 pc tomato
- Make ready 1 pc onion (medium size)
- Get 1 pc ginger (medium size)
- Make ready 4 pcs garlic cloves
- Take 4 tbsp anchovy sauce
- Take 1/4 kg meat (liempo)
- Prepare Salt to season
Pinakbet is a popular Filipino dish which traditionally consists of pork and mixed vegetables, cooked and flavored with shrimp paste. Vegetables like string beans, squash, okra, bittermelon and eggplant are commonly used for this dish. Add string beans or even squash if you want, but the ampalaya, okra and eggplants are your required vegetables for an authentic Pinakbet. If you have fried fish or pork leftovers from the day before, you can use them as long as they're not seasoned with overpowering flavors like chili or anise or sesame oil.
Step by Step to make Pinakbet:
- Wash and prepare meat and vegetables; longitudinal for meat, eggplant and bitter gourd, cubed for squash, cut in half for okra and tomatoes.
- Arrange ingredients in the pan (pan should be narrow with cover) following this order from bottom to top (in the bottom are ginger, garlic and onions, followed by meat, then squash, okra, bittergourd long chilli and eggplant at the top most part)
- Pour in 4-6 tbsp of anchovy (fish sauce) and 100 ml of water. Close and simmer in low heat for 20-25 mins.
- The vegetables should be thoroughly cooked, add salt to season (optional). Simmer again for 3-5 mins.
Pinakbet also called as pakbet is a popular and indigenous food from the northern part of the Philippines. The word pinakbet comes from the word "pinakebbet" meaning to shrink because the vegetables wrinkle when thrown into the mix. Pinakbet is a fragrant Filipino stew. It's flavored with fatty pork and salty shrimp paste, which is why the recipe below doesn't call for any extra salt. The vegetables are stewed together with garlic and ginger for a hearty, flavorful.
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