Filipino Stovetop - Vegetable Medley Recipe

PINKABET (Vegetable Medley)

Cooking time:

Servings: 6

Ingredients
3 pieces ampalaya (bitter melon), quartered lengthwise and cut to 4 cm long 6 pieces medium size eggplant, diagonally cut to 4 cm long 1/2 kg sitaw (string beans), tops and tails removed and cut to 4 cm long 1/2 kg okra, tops and tails removed and cut across the grain if long		1 kg very ripe tomatoes, chopped 1/2 kg sitsaron (pork crackling) or boiled pork rashers cut into serving pieces 1 piece thumb size ginger, sliced thinly 1/3 cup bagoong alamang (salted small shrimps) 3 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 cup hot water

Cooking Instructions

1. Sauté ginger and tomatoes till mushy
2. Add bagoong alamang, sitsaron and 1/2 cup hot water
3. Boil till sitsaron gets limp
4. Add eggplant, when cooked remove with a slotted spoon and set aside
5. Cook sitaw next in the same fluid and do the same as the eggplant
6. Follow the same procedure with okra and ampalaya. Add water if necessary to cook the vegetables
7. When all the vegetables are cooked, pour the remaining sauce on top of the cooked vegetables.