Ingredients:
- Half of a small pumpkin, cubed
- 1 cup winged beans, cut diagonally
- 1 medium-sized onion, sliced
- 5 garlic cloves, chopped
- Half slab of dried labahita fish, soaked in water and shredded (optional: white bisugo)
- 1 cup coconut cream
- 1 cup water
- 1 tbsp. fish sauce
- Thumb-sized ginger, sliced thinly
- White pepper to taste
- pinch of sugar
Procedure:
1. Saute garlic, ginger and onion.
2. Add in shredded labahita. Once onion turns translucent.
3. Add in the pumpkin and fish sauce. Saute for 1 minute
4. Add in the coconut cream and water and bring to a boil.
5. Once it boils, add in the winged beans, sugar, and season with pepper and boil for 1-2 minutes or until winged beans are tender but not overcooked.
6. Transfer to a serving dish and enjoy.
Makes 2-3 servings.
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This dish is one of my husband's favorite because it's a dish made of coconut cream or gata since he is a Bicolano and very easy on the wallet because the ingredients are so cheap.👍👌 It's a healthy dish because basically, it's plant-based and NO MEAT. Pumpkin is rich in vitamin A and relatively low in calorie and the winged bean is rich in folate, low in calories as well, contains protein and healthy fat.
NEVER peel the pumpkin because the skin has lots of vitamins as well and fiber too. For the winged beans, remove the tips and a strand on its side will come off with it. That part is tough so it's best to remove as well. When using dried fish, better soaked it in water to remove excess salt. You might ask, why would I soak it and then add fish sauce after? Because it's better to be safe, if the dried fish is too salty it can ruin the dish boiling it for a long time renders those salt. So if the dish is not that salty after using soaked dried fish, you can add salt or fish sauce.
Pumpkin or squash? What to use for cooking? Are you confused? Well basically, pumpkin is one type of squash. Pumpkin is a fruit and squash has so many varieties but both came from the same family of genus cucurbita. Squash has many varieties depending on the climate and to which part of the world it grows you have butternut squash, kabocha(japan), honey bear squash, yellow summer squash and so many more.
Enjoy cooking everyone! ❤😘
