Pinoy Pinakbet with Shrimp Recipe

Serves/Makes: 4 – 6

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup salted small shrimps (bagoong alamang)
• 3 tablespoons cooking oil
• 3 cloves garlic, crushed skin detached
• 2 medium size onions, chopped
• 3 ripe tomatoes, chopped1/4 squash, cut into desired shapes
• 1 medium size ampalaya (bitter melon), clean and cut diagonally (To avoid bitterness of ampalaya, after slicing sprinkle it with rock salt, mix then wash under running water.)
• 5 medium size eggplant, cut diagonally
• 6 sitaw (string beans), tops and tails removed, cut
• 10 okra, tops and tails removed and cut into half
• 1/2 cup hot water
• Patis (fish sauce) to taste

How to cook Pinoy Pinakbet with Shrimp:

• Saute garlic, onions and tomatoes (do not overcooked). Add hot water together with ampalaya, okra and sitaw simmer for 10 minutes.
• Separately boil squash and eggplant for 5 minutes. When 10 minutes is over add half-cooked squash and eggplant together with salted shrimps (bagoong alamang).
• Simmer for another 5 minutes uncovered. Add fish sauce to taste.

Notes:
The Pinoy Shrimp-Fish Salad recipe very easy to prepare and so good!
Kining sud-ana makasingot sa ka lami. (This kind of food will make you sweat with its good taste.)

Comments:
Pinakbet or pakbet is a popular Ilocano dish, from the northern regions of the Philippines. The basic vegetables used in this dish include native bitter melon, eggplant, tomato, ginger, okra, string beans, lima beans, chili peppers, parda and winged beans. A Tagalog version usually includes calabaza.

This recipe for Pinoy Pinakbet with Shrimp serves/makes: 4 – 6

The Pinoy Pinakbet with Shrimp recipe is adopted from The Philippine Cook Book.

Main Ingredient: Shrimp
Preparation Method: Poached/Simmered 
Cuisine: Filipino