Ginisang munggo is a
Filipino
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** Filipino language, standardized variety of 'Tagalog', the national language and one of the official languages of the Philippines.
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savory
mung bean soup. It is made with mung beans, garlic, tomatoes, onions, various vegetables, and ''
patis'' (fish sauce). It is cooked with pork, ''
tinapa'' (smoked fish), ''
daing
''Daing'', ''tuyô'', or ''bilad'' (literally "sun-dried" or "sun-baked") are dried fish from the Philippines. Fish prepared as ''daing'' are usually split open (though they may be left whole), gutted, salted liberally, and then sun and air-dri ...
'' (dried fish), or other seafood and meat. It is also commonly garnished with ''
chicharon''.
The name means "sauteed mung bean", though the dish ends up being a soup. The name is in reference to the first step of the cooking process where the spices and the secondary ingredients are sauteed before water and the mung beans are added.
A variant of the dish includes
coconut milk and is known as ''ginisang munggo sa gata''. It should not be confused with ''
ginataang munggo'' which is a dessert gruel made from glutinous rice and mung beans.
See also
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Cuisine of the Philippines
Filipino cuisine ( fil, lutong Pilipino/pagkaing Pilipino) is composed of the cuisines of more than a hundred distinct ethnolinguistic groups found throughout the Philippine archipelago. A majority of mainstream Filipino dishes that compose Fi ...
References
Philippine cuisine
Legume dishes
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