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🥥 Lami ang Ginataang Gulay 🥬🍆🎃

Curry-like, as 2 of my kids thought it was curry cooking in the kitchen.😜

This is fragrant, coconuty, silky, full of flavor. and packed with nutrients. 🤎 A classic taste of home sweet home. 🏝️

Easy to make, my Z made this at her first try, and it was so lami! (delicious). Approved by my girls 👌👌.

 

🥥 Ingredients

  • Coconut milk
  • Fish sauce
  • Shrimp, deveined
  • 5 garlic, minced
  • Veggies, sliced.
eggplant🍆, squash🎃, greens: spinach 🥬, okra, string beans, red bellpepper. 
  • Red chili, thinly sliced (optional)
  • Red chili flakes (optional)
  • Paprika (optional)
  • White pepper
  • Shrimp cubes (optional)
  • Dilis (optional)

🥥 Tools

  • Cooking pot & ladle
  • Chopping board & knife 

🥥 Steps

  1. On medium heat 🔥, saute garlic
  2. Add shrimp, stir fry for 3 minutes.
  3. Remove  shrimp & set aside, so it does not overcook.
  4. Add shrimp paste, saute for 1 minute. 
  5. Add veggies, hard veggies first (like root crops), stir.
  6. Add fish sauce.
  7. Add 1/4 cup water, add coconut milk. Mix well.
  8. Cover pot slightly.
  9. Cook veggies until tender (do a fork poke test of the hardest veggie in mix)
  10. Add less hard veggies, cook, and add leafy greens in last 5 minutes of cooking. Cover pot slightly.

Enjoy with warm rice!

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