Cooking Blog: Pinakbet For Our Lunch

Hello, how are you? Whenever we ate a straight day of meat dishes, we always washed those meats away with a vegetable dish like Pinakbet, so whenever we felt the guilt of not eating enough vegetables, this dish is one to cook.

Pinakbet is one dish that is never missing on a ilocano family in weekly market specially us, who need to eat more vegetables because we us human need to eat vegetables once in a while specially us who are not young anymore LOL.

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Ingredients I Used:

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Let's Cook!

In a pan, I added two tablespoons of cooking oil, and then I added the leftover chicken as "sahog" because we ran out of meat LOL.

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Cook it until some crispy part on the meat.

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And then I added aromatics like garlic, red onion, and ginger. Cook it for about a minute until the aroma comes out.

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Then I added the tomatoes. I cooked them until the texture of it turn into a mush.

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We ran out of Bagoong, so I used fish sauce. I added about two tablespoons of it.

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Let the fish sauce seep into the tomatoes for about 20 seconds.

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After that, I added two cups of water.

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For the flavor, I added one chicken broth cube into the water.

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When it started boiling, I added the okra first because sometimes these vegetables needed to cook longer.

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I added the long string beans next. These needed to be cooked longer too.

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After that, I added the Thai eggplant.

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Then I added a bunch of green chilis.

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And lastly, I added the bittergourd and bagbagkong.

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Cook it for about 7-10 minutes on high-medium heat.

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Serve hot and plated.

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Happy eating! :D

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