Quick and Delicious Sayote Recipe

Try making a Filipino vegetable dish with our sayote recipe! This sayote recipe includes nutritious ingredients like tomatoes, pear squash, oyster sauce, and shrimp! This dish is often served with a side of grilled meat and a bowl of steamed rice. Additionally, sayote is also known as chayote, which belongs to the gourd family and it’s rich in vitamins and minerals, such as vitamin C and folic acid.

Meal: Lunch, Dinner
Cuisine: Filipino

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Total time: 30 minutes
Yield: 6 servings

Ingredients

• 15ml of canola oil
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 cloves of garlic, minced
• 2 Roma tomatoes, chopped
• 230g of large shrimp, peeled, deveined, and cut into 3 pieces
• 236ml of hot water
• 30ml of oyster sauce
• 4 sayotes, peeled, cored, and cut into small pieces
• Salt to taste
• Pepper to taste

Equipment

• 1 frying pan with lid
• 1 spatula

Directions

• Heat the oil in a frying pan over medium heat, add the chopped onions and minced garlic. Cook until they’re soft.
• Add the chopped tomatoes, lightly mash them with a spatula, and cook them until they turn soft.
• Add the shrimps and cook them until they turn pink.
• Add hot water and oyster sauce, stir and bring it to a boil.
• Add the sayotes. Lower the heat, and cover the frying pan to simmer for 8 to 10 minutes.
• Lastly, season with salt and pepper to taste.

Tips and Alternative Ingredients

Sayote has a sticky resin that irritates the skin, so remember to wear gloves when you touch it. You can also remove the sticky resin by cutting off the top of the sayote and rubbing the cut part in a circular motion until the transparent sap turns white and foamy-like. To avoid overcooking the shrimps. Remove them from the pan once they’re pink and put them back in once the sayote is cooked. Transform this sayote recipe to a vegetarian one by replacing shrimp with vegan luncheon meat and regular oyster sauce with mushroom oyster sauce!

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