When it comes to Filipino food, there are not many limits as to the kind of ingredients you can add. After all, our cooks boast a great deal of knowledge in cooking with vegetables and various spices. But a component we can almost always go back to, and cook quite perfectly, is monggo or mung…
Mung Bean Recipes
Ginisang Munggo (Monggo)
Some dishes in a certain cuisine are known to best describe the feeling of home-cooked meals from that particular country. For the Philippines, it can range from sinigang to fried bangus to longganisa. But Ginisang Munggo is perhaps one of the best standout dishes that can definitely bring to you the comfort of a Filipino…
Ginisang Monggo with Dilis
Ginisang Monggo with Dilis is sautéed mung beans and anchovies, with fish sauce and ground black pepper as seasoning. It is a version of my favorite monggo dish that I used to have every Friday when I was still residing in the Philippines. I am not sure when this practice started. I don’t have a…
Pata at Hipon sa Gata na May Monggo at Langka
Pata at Hipon sa Gata na May Monggo at Langka is a dish composed of pork hock, shrimp, unripe jack fruit, and mung beans. All of these ingredients were cooked together in coconut milk and I also added some shrimp paste or bagoong alamang for extra flavor. This dish is somewhat a combination of multiple…
Ginataang Monggo with Pork Recipe
There are many ways to cook mung beans.Today I am sharing one of my favorite mung bean dish: Ginataang Monggo with Pork. This should not be confused with sweet ginataang monggo dessert. Ginataang Monggo with Pork is a main dish wherein mung beans are sauteed with pork and stewed in coconut milk. It is rich,…
Spicy Monggo with Tinapa
Monggo with fish is always a good combination. This Spicy Monggo with Tinapa recipe is an example of how to incorporate fish with ginasang monggo. It is very tasty and spicy. This budget-friendly dish can feed up to 6 persons. Sarap! Spicy Monggo with Tinapa is the first spicy monggo dish that I featured. I like…
Shrimp Monggo with Lechon Kawali
I think that Shrimp Monggo with Lechon Kawali makes a good pair along with a cup of rice — or maybe two cups. The shrimp monggo was very tasty and I enjoyed every bite of the lechon kawali — it was crispylicious! This combination should be regular at my household at least once a month. While…
Ginisang Monggo with Inihaw na Liempo
Ginisang Monggo with Inihaw na Liempo sounds like a perfect combination; both dishes make a good pair, in my opinion. In fact, it is one of my favorite meal combo along with a cup of rice and a glass of cold water. This is a simple meal and my family loves it. I like these…
Pork Monggo Recipe
I still don’t have an answer as to why people typically cook monggo on a Friday. However, it should not stop us from cooking Pork Monggo any day of the week and any time of the day. After all, it is easy-to-prepare, budget-friendly, healthy, and delicious. I have the recipe with cooking video ready for…
Monggo with Hibi (Mung beans with small dried shrimp)
I cooked this Monggo with Hibi last night for dinner since it was a Friday because we were trying to abstain from eating meat. It was also a coincidence because some Filipino households prepare this dish mostly on a Friday, for some reason. There is nothing special about monggo with hibi, but I still found…