Vegetables in Shrimp Paste (Simple Pinakbet)
Vegetables in Shrimp Paste (Simple Pinakbet)

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, vegetables in shrimp paste (simple pinakbet). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Vegetables in Shrimp Paste (Simple Pinakbet) is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Vegetables in Shrimp Paste (Simple Pinakbet) is something which I have loved my entire life.

Pay less than grocery store prices and get the convenience of easy delivery. Pinakbet or Pakbet is an indigenous Filipino dish cooked with mixed tropical vegetables. Traditionally, it consists of eggplant, okra, bitter melon, squash, winged beans, and shrimp paste or bagoong (fermented anchovies).

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook vegetables in shrimp paste (simple pinakbet) using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Vegetables in Shrimp Paste (Simple Pinakbet):
  1. Prepare 1 bowl sliced vegetables
  2. Get 1 small red onion, chopped
  3. Make ready 4 cloves garlic, chopped
  4. Prepare 1-2 tomatoes, sliced
  5. Get 2 Tbsp cooking oil
  6. Make ready 1-2 Tbsp shrimp paste (alamang)
  7. Prepare 1/2 c or more Water
  8. Make ready to taste Salt
  9. Take to taste Pepper
  10. Get Dash coconut milk (optional)
  11. Get 1/4 pork bullion cube (optional, if no protein)

The Filipino Pinakbet is a vegetable stew cooked with bagoong (shrimp paste). In the Philippines, backyard vegetables are used for this recipe like eggplants, long green beans, okra, ampalaya (bitter melon), kabocha squash. When I cook this in my American kitchen, I try to substitute with similar vegetables I can find in the markets. The salty, pungent aroma of the bagoong defines the flavor.

Steps to make Vegetables in Shrimp Paste (Simple Pinakbet):
  1. Traditional vegetables used are (sliced): bitter gourd (ampalaya), okra, eggplant, string beans, carrots and squash.
  2. Sauté onions then garlic in oil. Then add tomatoes. Let the juices come out. Add your protein.
  3. Add water and the squash. Simmer until half cooked.
  4. Add the other vegetables. Season with salt and pepper. Add the pork bullion to flavor if not adding protein. Taste and adjust. Add a little more water if necessary.
  5. Sauté in the shrimp paste. You have the option to add coconut milk here. Simmer until veggies are cooked. Serve with rice. Some like it saucy, mine got absorbed since I did not add coconut milk.

The first step in making pinakbet is to cook the shrimp until pink. Then, in the same pan you used to cook the shrimp, saute the garlic and ginger followed by the remaining shrimp paste. The Pinakbet (say 'pee-nak-bet') is a Filipino vegetable stew of Asian eggplants, long green beans, okra, ampalaya (bitter melon), kabocha squash, tomatoes, shrimps, pork slices cooked in a saute of shrimp paste. The shrimp paste or 'bagoong' defines this dish and flavors it adding a salty spike to the fresh greens. Pinakbet or Pakbet is a Filipino vegetable dish that is flavorful as it is colorful.

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