Munggo Recipe

Munggo is a bean family that many Filipino love to eat in our home we eat this every other Friday of the week and it is matched up with piksiw ng bangus. 

Click here to find the Filipino Paksiw Bangus Recipe

In English it is called mung beans.

Munggo Recipe

Ingredients:

• ½ Cup – Hibi (dried shrimp)
• 4 Pieces – Tinapa (smoke fish) -shredded, remove bones, head and tail
• 1 Cup – Munggo 
• 1 – Cup Leaves of Ampalya or Spinach
• 2 Tbsp – Patis (fish sauce)
• 1 – Onion (chopped)
• 4 – Cloves Garlic (minced)
• 3 Cups – Pork broth or 2 Knorr Pork Cubes
• Optional – Chicharon (pork rind) - crushed

Day Before:

Soak munggo overnight in a bowl of one cup munggo with 3 cups of water.

Next Day:

Rinse munggo with cold water to drain it out until water is clear.

Cooking Instructions:

• Boil munggo in 3 cups of pork broth until it becomes soft
• In a pot sauté garlic, onion in cooking oil add pork, tinapa and hibi cook for 3 minutes.
• Add boiled munggo beans, ampalaya leaves season with patis until soft
• Topping with chicharon

Ready to serve in serving bowl.

 

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