Magandang Buhay Foodies Bee Hivers!!
Its a beautiful Sunday and its a great day to buy vegetable and cook healthy food. It has been a struggle to let my kids eat vegetable at first but later on as I constantly cook vegetables at home it has become a habit that we eat vegetables ones in a while. Todays recipe would be the easiest but healthiest. This viand would be considered as the most common food served in every Filipinos home.
First I went to a near market to buy the neccessary ingredients.
Let's cook Utan Bisaya and Ginisang Ampalaya
Utan bisaya is a simple Filipino vegetable dish that is composed of a variety of veggies. This dish might look plain and simple, but it is packed with vitamins and nutrients that can boost our health. I remember my mom used to cook it at home specially when we cannot afford to buy meat.
Here's a quick procedure of cooking Utan Bisaya.
Ingredients
1 piece eggplant sliced 10 pieces okra 2 thumbs ginger sliced 1 piece tomato wedged 5 stalks green onions sliced 1 1/2 cup squash cubed 1 cup malunggay leaves 2 slices fish fillet baked or fried( or left over fish) 1 to 2 cups string beans cut into 2 inch length 1 cup loofah patola, sliced salt to taste 2 cups water 1 1/2 cups spinach or alugbati
Instructions
- Bring the water to a boil. Add squash and squash, I added the squash first since I want it to be really soft and can mash it later. Continue to boil for 8 minutes (covered).
- Stir-in the string beans, okra, and tomato. Let the liquid re-boil.
- Add the long green pepper and eggplant
- Stir and Cover and cook for 10 minutes. Add the spinach add the fish. Cover and cook for 3 to 5 minutes. Add some salt to taste.
- Transfer to a serving bowl. Serve. Share and enjoy!
Next on we will be having the Ginisang Ampalaya or Sauteed Bitter Melon
Bitter melon, also known as “ampalaya” in Tagalog or “paliya” in my native Cebuano dialect, is a greenish, elongated, and wrinkled fruit that grows from a vine commonly used as an ingredient in cooking. For the longest time I try my very best to cook it in how my mom would, Half cooked but not very bitter.
First you have to put salt and lukewarm water then leave for 5 minutes. This is in preparation so it won't be that bitter when you cook it. Place the ampalaya in a large bowl.
Ingredients
1 piece ampalaya cleaned and cut into thin slices salt to taste 1 raw eggs 18 ounces luke warm water 1 large tomato sliced 1 large onion sliced 3 tbsp cooking oil
Instructions
- Heat the pan and place the cooking oil. Saute the onion, and tomato.
- Add the ampalaya mix well with the other ingredients.
- Put-in the eggs and pour over the ampalaya then let the eggs cook partially.
- Mix the egg and add salt for taste.Serve hot. Share and Enjoy!
And now we are ready to eat and share. This is a very affordable meal. You can eat healthy and save coz this is very budget friendly meal. Hope you can try this at home.