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"Cibo's perfect lunch deal for only 549! Don't miss out - your taste buds will thank you."

  Ever eaten your lunch very late it was already one in the afternoon by the time Mom Violy and Carmina was going to eat. Mom Violy wanted to eat at  Cibo located at the GH the newest area located in Greenhill's Shopping Center. Mom Violy already knew what she wanted to eat was the chicken sandwich. The server had informed us there is a new promo which you can get a set meal by picking which one you would like. There was a perfect lunch deal for Mom Violy's chicken sandwich the server asked if Mom Violy would like to pair it with carbonara pasta for 549.00 pesos ($9.63). Each had a cream puff for your dessert was served ahead of our meal since Mom Violy was already feeling lightheaded. Carmina decided to have grilled chicken with rice include with pumpkin soup and cream puff. Senior citizen or PWD card holder cannot be used since it is a promotional deal. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your...

List of Filipino Vegetables Used in Filipino Dishes


In the Philippines we have variety of different type of vegetables that are cooked in our Filipino dishes.

Sayote
  • Chicken tinola 
  • Sauté vegetables cooked with shrimp or pork

Upo 
  • Saute vegetable with shrimp or pork 
  • Made into a soup

Mungo Beans 
  • Cooked with spinach and shrimp or pork

Malunggay
  • Cooked with mungo beans
  • Soup 
  • Made into pandesal (bread)

Ampalaya (bitter melon)
  • Cooked in gata (coconut milk) 
  • Saute with shrimp
  • Salad with vinegar, onion, tomato, salt and black pepper
  • Eaten with buro (fermented rice)

Kamote (sweet potato) comes in color purple or yellow
  • Fried
  • Boiled
  • Baked 
  • Added in Dessert such as ginatan
  • Added in Fresh lumpia

Pechay or Chinese cabbage 
  • Cooked in Nilagang
  • Steam
  • Stir-fried

Kangkong 
  • Cooked with sinigang (sour soup) 
  • Fried by adding batter 
  • Steam eaten with bagong (shrimp paste)

Puso ng saging or Banana Blossom
  • Cooked has salad
  • Soup

Gabi (taro) 
  • Cooked in singigang (sour soup)

Mustasa
  • Cooked in salad 
  • Soup
  • Be boiled and eaten with buro (fermented rice)

Singkamas or Jicama 
  • Eaten raw by adding it with vinegar, soy sauce 
  • Salt

Alugbati 
  • Cooked as soup
  • Salad 
  • Stew cooked with fish

Sigarilyas 
  •  Cooked with coconut milk (gata)

Sitaw or String Beans 
  • Cooked in singigang (sour soup)
  • Sauté with soy sauce, onion, pork and garlic

Kamoteng kahoy Cassava root 
  • Cassava cake
  • Boiled yucca

Tanglad (Lemon grass) 
  • Added in rice when cooking in rice cooker
  • Dessert 
  • Juice

Taro Leaves
  • Cooked to make Laing and coconut milk

Sweet Potato Leaves
  • Stir fry
  • Boiled made into salad

Patola  
  • Cooked soup
  • Sautéd vegetable with shrimp

Ubod – (coconut palm heart)
  •  Fresh lumpia

Atsuete  
  • Food coloring

Bawang
  •  Native garlic – use for longanisa

Green Papaya 
  • Cooked with chicken tinola
Japanese Eggplant
  • Fried dip with vinegar
  • Steam made into a salad with vinegar, tomato, onion, salt and black pepper
  • Cooked with pinakbet or Kare kare
  • Torta (omelette)
Squash
  • Pinakbet 
  • Ukoy
Okra
  • Pinakbet
  • Sinigang (sour soup)
  • Steam 

Calamasi (Philippine Lime)
  • Citrus juice
  • Dipping sauce by adding soy sauce and hot pepper




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