Grilled Pinakbet
Grilling the vegetables prior to cooking adds a delicious smokey flavor to this classic Filipino dish. Pinakbet is a vegetable dish sauteed with shrimp paste, with or without meat and shrimp.
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1-2 tablespoons Cooking Oil
- 3 cloves Garlic minced
- 1 pc Red Onion medium size / diced
- 3 pc Tomatoes diced
- 2 tablespoons Shrimp Paste bagoong / alamang
- 8 pcs Okra small size
- 1 pc Bitter Gourd large size / ampalaya
- ¼ Squash
- Black Pepper ground
Instructions
- Heat a cooking pan over medium high heat, Add cooking oil.
- When oil is very hot, add minced garlic, stir then, add onion, cook for a minute then add the diced tomatoes.
- Turn the heat up to high setting while stirring to cook the tomatoes quickly.
- Turn heat back to medium again and then add the shrimp paste, after a few seconds, add water.
- Season with ground black pepper. Cover the pan and let cook for about ten minutes.
- Add all the grilled vegetables, stir, cover the pan again and let cook for another 5 minutes. Turn off heat. It's done.
- Serve hot.. with rice and or with grilled or fried meat or fish Enjoy!
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