Recipe of Award-winning PINAKBET (Ilokano)

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, pinakbet (ilokano). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

PINAKBET (Ilokano) is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. PINAKBET (Ilokano) is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have pinakbet (ilokano) using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make PINAKBET (Ilokano):

1. Prepare 1 lb pork shoulder / pork belly
2. Prepare 1 onion sliced
3. Take 3 cloves garlic crushed
4. Make ready 1 roma tomato sliced
5. Prepare 3 tbsp Fish Sauce
6. Make ready 1/2 bitter gourd (ampalaya)
7. Make ready 1 eggplant sliced diagonally
8. Make ready 1 cup large diced squash
9. Take 5 pcs okra halved across
10. Take 8 pcs string beans (into 3 inch long)
11. Take 1 small sized ginger smashed
12. Get 1 cup water

Instructions to make PINAKBET (Ilokano):

1. Cook meat until fat is rendered, remove excess oil. Add garlic cook until slightly browned.
2. Add onions and tomato. Cook until onion is translucent at tomato is soft and almost mushed.
3. Add fish sauce/ shrimp paste, then add ginger to lessen pungency of the fish sauce. Stir until the meat is coated with the sauce.
4. Add water then bring to a boil.
5. Add in okra and eggplant first and cook for 1 minute. Then add the rest of the vegetables (string beans, squash, bitter gourd).
6. Simmer until the vegetables are cooked and sauce is reduced.
7. Serve hot. Best eaten with steamed rice. Enjoy!

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