Bulanglang Recipe (Boiled Vegetables) -repost
I will soon turnover this blog to my wife in the coming days, and her plan is to fill this up with her favorite filipino recipes and more recipes she invented and learned from others. And while it looks like she’s not got the time to blog yet, let me repost my favorite vegetable recipe I posted long way back. It’s called the ‘Bulanglang‘. A recipe I only find in Batangas, though I heard there’s a similar recipe in Bulacan.
Here’s the list of the primary ingredients of Bulanglang
- 1 Papaya fruit
- ¼ regular-sized squash (kalabasa)
- 5 Okra
- 5 tomatoes (kamatis)
- ¼ Garlic bulb (bawang)
- 2 tsp. salt
- patani (i don’t know the en.
it belongs to beans family) - sigarilyas (in Batangas, it is called as kalamismis I don’t know the en.)
- string beans
- malunggay leaves
- squash flower and leaves
How to cook Bulanglang
Preparing ingredients
- Peel off the papaya fruit. Divide it into several cuts. *Tip: before peeling a papaya, slightly cut it first on its vertical lines so you have the marks where to cut it when you already peeled it. Make french-fries-like cuts from each part.
- Peel off the squash. Slice it into thin chunks.
- Slice the Okra diagonally into 3 parts.
- Slice the tomatoes into 4.
- Press the garlics.
- Separate the patani beans from its skin.
- Chop the sigarilyas into several chunks.
- Chop the string beans about 2 inches each.
- Separate the malunggay leaves from its stem
How I cooked my Bulanglang
- Boil tomato cuts and garlic on a pot of 1.5L water until tomatoes become saggy.
Add 2 tsp of salt. Adding salts, btw, depends on your taste. - Put other vegetables in the cooking pot. Normally, those that are easily get cooked should be put first. But it depends on you. You can put them all at once as well. Vegetables normally get cooked for about 10-15 mins only depending on the amount of heat.
- Wait until all vegetables are cooked. Serve hot.
- That’s it.
I’ve heard of this before during my visit to Bauan, Batangas two years ago. Though I never had a taste of it, I’d certainly try if given the chance.
@jhay, yeah you should. it’s very delicious.