Survived the meal yesterday and here we go for another day to think of another ulam to cook. We got dilis in our food stock but I didn't know what to combine with this so I took a stroll around the backyard, going to farm and I only found this gulay left after the typhoon, and this is the gabi.
Exactly enough that I am craving for something spicy seeing the bunch of red chilis in our kitchen table, chili would go well with ginataang gabi.
Resilient enough the gabi survived the storm and moderate flood. Thinking about it, they can live through wet areas so that's why they can resist even the muddy flood.
And then here I am in this poso that were flooded many times, got the flooring mudded thick but it is still our useful resource of water every day. Got this cut gabi stems to be cleaned so I cut the stems in pieces including the leaves anyway, and then cleaned them and washed them twice.
And here I wrote my recipe preparation so if anybody would ask, here it is.
Chili
Coconut Milk
Onion
Garlic
Ginger
Dilis
GINATAANG GABI RECIPE
These are the grated coconut in tiny pieces. And thankfully I got my two younger brothers to do this. They peeled and broke the coconut shell and then they grate them after while I cook rice and prepare the other ingredients for the ginataang gabi.
They did their works and I continued the process. Here, I pour hot water in the grated coconut milk to get the milk on it and then I have to squeeze and strain the milk.
Now I got plenty of milks.
I boiled the gabi for five minutes first and this is an important part because through boiling, the itch of gabi are being removed. It will prevent us from the itching sensation in the throat when it is not cooked well.
Now it's time for cooking so I first sautéed all the aromatics and spices including the dilis as ingredient and when they turn golden brown already I placed the gabi and poured the coconut milk. I also added the condiments and then covered it with lid for minutes until it is well cooked.
After all the works from cooking our dinner it was nice to have a snack of pandesal and coffee. This combination goes really well. Right now I'm craving sweets. My mother sells binatog so I got to taste sweets today.
Thank you for dropping by this blog. I hope you enjoy the recipe!
Until next time!
Best regards: @celyxzstin, a food & photography blogger from Luzon, Philippines.