Bulanglang, Filipino vegetable stew with pork

Bulanglang, Filipino vegetable stew with pork

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The Filipino bulanglang: a vegetable stew featuring squash, long beans, eggplant, and water spinach, seasoned with pork and shrimp paste.

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Bulang-bulang is a Filipino vegetable stew, seasoned with a touch of pork and shrimp paste. It is simple, light, and full of flavor.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time20 min
  • Cook time25 min
  • Total45 min
  • DifficultyEasy
  • Cooking methodnibbling

Ingredients

4 people
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  • $3.35
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  • $3.50

Directions

  1. In a frying pan, heat the oil and sauté the garlic, onion, and tomatoes.
  2. Add the pork and cook it until browned.
  3. Add the shrimp paste, pumpkin, and water, then bring to a boil.
  4. Add the remaining vegetables and cook until they are tender.
  5. Serve it very hot. ≈ 2 min

Before you start

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon of oil
  • 2 cloves of garlic, minced
  • 1 chopped onion
  • 2 chopped tomatoes
  • 60 g of pork, cut into thin strips
  • 2 tablespoons of shrimp paste (bagoong)
  • 2 pieces of pumpkin, cut into squares
  • 125 ml of water
  • 1 kilogram of dried beans, cut into 5 cm pieces
  • 1 pod of winged bean (bataw)
  • 1 bitter cucumber (also known as a “gherkin”), cut into 2.5 cm pieces
  • 1 bunch of water spinach (kangkong), cut into 5 cm pieces
  • 2 eggplants, cut into 2.5 cm pieces

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