Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, pork monggo. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Pork monggo is not your typical ginisang monggo dish because it was prepared differently. You just need to wash the beans after removing it from the packaging and cook it immediately. Pork Monggo is a stewed mung bean dish with pork and lots of healthy vegetables.
Pork Monggo is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Pork Monggo is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have pork monggo using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pork Monggo:
- Prepare 1/2 kilo pork cut into cubes
- Prepare 1 cup hibe/dried shrimp
- Take 1 cup monggo/mung beans
- Prepare 1 ampalaya/bittermelon no seed sliced thinly,soaked in hot water
- Make ready 5 cloves garlic minced
- Get 1 onion diced
- Take 2 tomatoes cubed
- Prepare 1-2 cups malunggay leaves
- Get 2 tablespoons fish sauce
- Make ready 1 pork bouillon cube
- Make ready 6 cups water
- Get Cooking oil
- Make ready to taste Salt and pepper
- Take Optional: crushed chicharon and tinapa (smoked fish) flakes
Ginisang munggo is a Filipino savory mung bean soup. It is made with mung beans, garlic, tomatoes, onions, various vegetables, and patis (fish sauce). It is cooked with pork, tinapa (smoked fish), daing (dried fish), or other seafood and meat. It is also commonly garnished with chicharon.
Steps to make Pork Monggo:
- In a pot, boil washed mung beans in water (make sure beans are covered in water, add more whenever necessary to avoid burning) for 30-45 minutes or until soft/cooked. Set aside.
- Heat pan in oil and add garlic and onion. Cook until garlic is light golden brown and onion is translucent. Add tomatoes and dried shrimp cook for about 2-3 minutes.Add ampalaya/bitter melon or gourd that was soaked in hot water to remove bitterness (make sure to rinse and remove water from ampalaya). Set aside.
- In the same pan, add pork and cook for about 20-30 minutes or until all sides have browned. If the cut pork has fat, I like making sure the fat part is toasted to make it crunchy. Or just throw the pork in the air fryer to cook.
- Add cooked pork, garlic, onions, ampalaya/bittermelon, tomatoes, dried shrimp and pork cube to the pot with the cooked monggo beans and bring to a boil. Add fish sauce, salt, and pepper to taste. Simmer for about 5 minutes. Turn the heat off. Add malunggay leaves and cover pot for another 5 minutes to let the residual heat cook the leaves.
- Serve with chicharon or tinapa flakes on top and with a side of steamed white rice.
We Filipinos call pork cracklings chicharon so it's safe to assume that these crisp fatty delicious He told me how his mom would add chicharon to monggo in lieu of the usual chunks of pork belly, and. Pork is a favorite of many Filipinos. Of course, one of them is monggo which is also packed with protein and easy to find in the market. Monggo guisado is a healthy Pinoy dish that does not require expensive ingredients. At home, we do not only cook monggo during Lent, hence the addition of pork in my recipe. monggo.
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