Ginisang Upo Recipe
Ginisang Upo is White Squash sautéed in garlic, onions, and tomatoes. Ground pork is also added for additional flavor. This is a very simple Filipino vegetable dish and a common vegetable meal in every household.
Chayote (sayote) can also be used as a substitute. This meal is so easy to prepare and would take you less than 20 minutes to complete.
Try this vegetable dish: Ginisang Upo.
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Ginisang Upo is bottle gourd sautéed in garlic, onions, and tomatoes. This Ginisang Upo recipe also makes use of ground pork for additional flavor and texture.
This Ginisang Upo Recipe is a simple Filipino vegetable dish that can be considered as an everyday food. Aside from ground meat, fish and other seafood can also be added when cooking this delicious dish.
For those who don’t have any access to bottle gourd, you can use Chayote (sayote) as a substitute. Try to go to the nearest Asian or Mexican grocery to find this vegetable.
Preparing this meal is so easy. It will only take you less than 20 minutes to complete everything.
Try this delicious Ginisang Upo Recipe and let me know what you think.
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Ginisang Upo Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 medium sized Upo White Squash , sliced
- 5 cloves garlic crushed
- 1 medium sized onion diced
- 2 medium sized tomatoes diced
- 1/4 lb ground pork
- 3 tbsp cooking oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
Instructions
- Heat the pan and pour the cooking oil
- Sauté the garlic, onions, and tomatoes
- Put-in the ground black pepper and ground pork then simmer for 3 to 5 minutes
- Add the Upo (White Squash), cover the pan, and simmer for 6 minutes
- Add salt to taste
- Serve hot. Enjoy!
Amboy says
I’m confused. Your picture of the dish has soup, but yet the recipe doesn’t call for water to be added. So we added water for soup. Pls clarify.
Vanjo Merano says
What you saw was the liquid from the bottle gourd that got extracted. It is no big deal to add water too. You may add up to 1 cup water if you want it to have some sauce. However, you should adjust the seasoning afterwards.
Vicky Horgan says
Hi Vanjo,
Could you please tell me what is the replacement that I can do with the batchoy, such as pig ear which my husband would not eat that stuff.
Best Regards,
Vicky
Joy Pascual says
Hi po…I’m a mother of two, married for more than a decade & I didn’t learn how to cook until I saw your website and I’m just very thankful for sharing the recipes…I’m very happy that I could cook now just by following your simple steps…I have been cooking from your recipes for a while now at hindi pa naman pumapalpak…whenever my husband ask me to cook something for him, my first step is to go to your website, get the ingredients, mamalengke, & simply follow your cooking instructions…I wish you well & more power…happy new year…happy cooking 🙂
Vanjo Merano says
Hi Joy. Thank you for your feedback. It feels good to be appreciated. Happy New Year! Cheers to good food and a better life ahead!
deutz says
Hi! In our place upo is not availabe instead can I use zucchini? Thanks & God bless.
Fine Life Folk says
Mmmm. I’ve only recently discovered or affirmed my love for anything ginisa because it appeals to my weird attraction to thunderstorms and cyclones. I loved sipping coffee beside the glass wall of the condo I used to rent in the middle of a thunderstorm. I don’t get to do that lately anymore. Ginisa for me is like that. There are stirring, combining stuff. It’s a beautiful chaos. And it’s a good excuse to get lots of onions, garlic and tomatoes in my mouth.