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Feasting on monggo will take you back to the better days. It’s a hearty meal and the comfort food for many—each bite fills you with the warmth and love of home-cooked food. Monggo, also known as Ginisang Munggo, has a core ingredient of Mung beans. It is accompanied by other affordable ingredients that make the dish affordable and accessible to all. Here’s our monggo recipe that’s guaranteed to make your tummy very happy!
Meal: Lunch, Dinner
Cuisine: Filipino
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Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients
- 710ml of water
- 310g of Mung beans
- 4 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1 tomato, chopped
- 1 onion, chopped
- 225g of pork, thinly sliced
- 1 Knorr Beef Cube
- 2 tbsp of fish sauce
- 8 shrimps
- 60g of spinach
- 115g of crushed pork rind
- ¼ tsp of black pepper
Equipment
- 2 pans
Directions
- In a pan, add water and bring it to a boil.
- Toss in the Mung beans and let it simmer or low heat until it softens.
- On a separate pan, add the minced garlic, chopped tomatoes and onions and sauté.
- Add in the pork and cook until the colour turns light brown.
- Toss in the Knorr Beef Cube and add fish sauce. Simmer on low heat until the meat is tender.
- Add the shrimps and stir to cook.
- Pour in the cooked Mung beans, stir to mix and let it simmer for 10 minutes.
- Add the spinach and crushed pork rinds, season with black pepper and serve!
Vegetarian alternative
This monggo recipe can be altered accordingly for those who are vegetarian as monggo can be a meat-free dish. All you’ll need to do is subtract the meats, use vegetable cubes and vegetarian fish sauce instead, and you’re good to go! If you’d like to make the meal equally as filling, you can even add ingredients like tofu or ampalaya leaves.