Pinakbet
Pinakbet

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, pinakbet. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

This is a vegetable dish from the Philippines that can be served as an everyday dish or when you have company. Since it also contains pork and prawns, you can eat it as a one-pot meal. Pinakbet or Pakbet is a Filipino vegetable stew from the Ilocos region. Its name is derived from the Ilocano word pinakebbet which means "shriveled", in reference to the vegetables being sweated in the pot over low heat until "shrunken".

Pinakbet is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Pinakbet is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have pinakbet using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Pinakbet:
  1. Get 4-5 garlic cloves; roughly chopped
  2. Take Half an onion; cut into wedges
  3. Make ready 1 tomato; chopped
  4. Get 1/3 rd kabocha squash; chopped into 1” cubes
  5. Get 1/2 lb pork
  6. Get 4 tbsp shrimp paste (Bagoong)
  7. Get 10 okra
  8. Make ready 1 handful green beans; cut into 2” pieces
  9. Take Chicken broth

As the dish became popular in the surrounding areas, different versions took root. Pakbet or pinakbet ilocano is vegan dish from the northern provinces of the Philippines, Ilocos. In this dish you can find bitter Melon, eggplant, okra, and string beans. This distinctive dish is a popular food around Filipina.

Instructions to make Pinakbet:
  1. Prep your ingredients. Have them ready, at hand.
  2. Sauté the onions first. Then garlic.
  3. Then add your tomato. You don’t have to wait too long for these to cook.
  4. Now you can add your pork. I used ground pork but you can use whatever you got. Cook until no longer pink.
  5. Add in the shrimp paste. Note: traditionally, this recipe calls for Bagoong - purple shrimp paste. I used Thai shrimp paste bc that’s what I had.
  6. Add in your kabocha squash and cook for about 2 mins. I added 1/2 cup of chicken broth.
  7. Then your okra.
  8. Then your green beans.
  9. Top with salt & pepper, and voila! Enjoy :)

In this dish you can find bitter Melon, eggplant, okra, and string beans. This distinctive dish is a popular food around Filipina. In Filipino surrounding areas, different versions took root. Pinakbet Tagalog is a Filipino vegetable dish. It is composed of a variety of vegetables and it also has a protein component.

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