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Dinengdeng
Light Ilocano vegetable soup flavoured with bagoong isda and sometimes grilled fish.
- Prep time
- 15m
- Cook time
- 20m
- Yield
- 4
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Ingredients
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Method
- In a pot, combine the water, onion, tomato and bagoong isda.
- Bring to a boil and simmer for about 5 minutes.
- Add the hard vegetables such as sitaw, eggplant, ampalaya and okra first.
- Simmer until they are almost tender.
- Add the leafy vegetables like saluyot and malunggay and the flaked grilled fish, if using.
- Simmer briefly until the leaves are just wilted and everything is tender.
- Taste and adjust saltiness by adding more water or bagoong isda as needed.
- Serve hot with rice.