Have you ever cooked a meat stew in different way?
...in a different way?
Normally, we Filipinos, we cook our food in a process. But, my dad made a Filipino meat stew in a very unique way. He calls it, Shabu-shabu. It is not literally a Chinese Shabu-shabu with same set of ingredients and taste. He just called it like that because of these ways ...
Firstly, he cooked the pork with a lots of TARO! He just put salt and pepper to taste, because, the TARO gives the taste to the entire dish! No cooking oil!
You may put broth cubes to make it tastier.
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| Fried Shallots |
This is great! Instead of putting onion while cooking the soup. He separately fried the small onions, "Shallots" and will be placed each on our bowls when we are already dining. This gives the final taste of the soup, tastes even better.
As well with the Scallion and chili peppers to add the spice of the dish.
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| Spinach |
The veggies will be your own choice. It would be better if there's plenty to choose for. We had this dish for several times and we sometimes change it like the photo below. It's a Chinese Cabbage.
Take note: The veggies are fresh. It'll cook when your soup is hot. You don't need to join them while doing the soup.
Simple healthy and elegant dish. 🍲
