Step-by-Step Guide to Make Homemade Filipino Pakbet

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, filipino pakbet. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Filipino Pakbet is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Filipino Pakbet is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

Pinakbet Tagalog is a Filipino vegetable dish. It is composed of a variety of vegetables and it also has a protein component. I made use of lechon kawali or crispy deep-fried pork belly for this recipe. This recipe is a variation of the popular Pinakbet Ilocano.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have filipino pakbet using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Filipino Pakbet:

1. Take 1 c bitter melon, chopped
2. Take 2 c butternut squash, chopped
3. Get 4 c fresh long beans, chopped (can substitute w/ green beans)
4. Prepare 1 c fresh tomatoes, chopped
5. Take 1 c zucchini, chopped
6. Prepare 1 c yellow onion, sliced
7. Take 2 c Japanese eggplant, chopped
8. Prepare 4 Garlic cloves, minced
9. Prepare 1 tsp ginger, minced
10. Take 1.5 lbs pork ribs (any kind of pork will do if not available)
11. Get .5 lb raw shrimp
12. Get 5 tbsp Chicken flavor dry broth base & seasoning
13. Make ready Olive oil
14. Prepare Salt and pepper

Pinakbet or Pakbet is a vegetable Filipino recipe that my hubby loves to eat. He's the type of person who likes to eat any kind of food recipes that contain vegetables. Growing up until I met my husband, I am very picky when it comes with vegetables in my diet. Pinakbet or Pakbet is a popular Ilocano dish, and one of the authentic Filipino food.

Instructions to make Filipino Pakbet:

1. Cut pork into bite size pieces. Keep any bones. This will be cooked and included with the dish. It adds extra flavor. Wash pork and drain or dry with a paper towel.
2. Heat a large pan on med heat. Saute pork for approximately 5 min. Season with salt and pepper and remove from pan. Set aside. (Fyi- oil not needed since it was washed.)
3. Saute onions in same pan used for pork for 1 min, drizzle olive oil and add garlic until fragrant, about 30 sec. Add tomatoes and continue to saute for 2 more min. Add butternut squash and cook for 5 min.
4. Add long beans and mix well. Cook for 3 min then add ginger. Cook 2 min.
5. Add zucchini and bitter melon with 1 3/4 c water. Stir to combine. Continue to let cook as you prepare the next step.
6. Meanwhile, cut up eggplant and add to pan. Cook for another 3-4 min.
7. Mix dry broth seasoning with the remaining 1/4 c of water then mix with the vegetables.
8. Add raw shrimp and cooked pork. Mix well. Lower heat to simmer and cover for 10-12 min. Enjoy!

Growing up until I met my husband, I am very picky when it comes with vegetables in my diet. Pinakbet or Pakbet is a popular Ilocano dish, and one of the authentic Filipino food. The word Pinakbet or Pakbet is the contracted form of the Ilocano word pinakebbet, meaning "shrunk" or "shriveled". Pinakbet is a popular Filipino dish which traditionally consists of pork and mixed vegetables, cooked and flavored with shrimp paste. Vegetables like string beans, squash, okra, bittermelon and eggplant are commonly used for this dish.

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