How to cook Bulanglang
One of the easy-to-cook Batangueño delicacies is the ‘Bulanglang’. Bulanglang is a mixed vegetable recipe that tastes very naturally and very nutritious. This has been an everyday cooking in Batangas specially on places where there is abundance of native vegetables.
Last Sunday, I picked up some ingredients from the grocery and promised my wife to cook Bulanglang for her. My wife is not very familiar about this recipe and she actually heard it first from me. The first time she tasted that specialty was last year, one time when we’re in Batangas. And she liked it.
My wife knows me as a veg-’hate’-arian as she can rarely see me eat vegetables. Most of the times, when she cook viands with vegetables, she will see me removing every strand of greens from my plate. I don’t eat vegetable salads as well. But little did she know that Bulanglang is one of my favorites. And last night I cooked it and it’s my breakfast this morning and my today’s lunch.
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
I lacked 7 – 11 but it still tasted fairly good.
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.
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Thanks for the recipe! Finally found the one familiar to what my mom instructed me to do.
chanced upon ur site while searching for bulanglang recipe. my dad cooks bulanglang and it’s inda similar to your procedure, only that he uses rice washing as vegetable stock. btw, my dad’s middle name is cantos also… might be a kin of yours… hailed from batangas city, from the mendoza clan.
definitely maybe. i’m actually from Batangas but grew up from the town of Mabini. My father was from Batangas city.
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