Stewed monggo (mung beans) with coconut cream
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In the olden days, monggo (mung beans) is soaked, boiled, mashed then pressed through a strainer to separate the hull. Well, it’s 2009 and I have a blender. I don’t see why the hull has to be removed when they can be cooked to tenderness just as well as the centers of the beans. I’ve cooked monggo countless times, I’ve done it the traditional way, with coconut milk and I’ve used both green and yellow mung beans.
But today… well, don’t I always say that cooking is a never ending learning process? Today, I cooked the best stewed monggo in my entire life. Thick and creamy. And the addition of purple basil and cilantro simply elevated this poor man’s dish to unbelievable heights.
Serves 4.
Ingredients:
150 g. of monggo (green or yellow, your choice)
500 g. of pork with a little fat (I recommend belly or shoulder), cut into small pieces
6 cloves of garlic, chopped
1 onion, sliced
2 tomatoes, diced
3 tbsps. of cooking oil
patis (fish sauce), to taste
freshly ground black pepper, about half a teaspoonful
a generous handful of green leafy vegetables — spinach, kangkong (water / swamp spinach) or talbos ng kamote (sweet potato leaves)
1/2 c. of coconut cream (see related entry on how to extract coconut cream or you can use canned coconut cream)
a small bunch of fresh cilantro
4 to 6 purple basil leaves
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Boil the mung beans in about two cups of water for 10 minutes. Pour the mung beans and water into a blender and process as finely or as coarsely as you like.
Heat about three tablespoonfuls of cooking oil in a pan and saute the garlic, onion and tomato, stirring often, until the vegetables start to soften.
Add the pork to the pan and cook until no longer pink.
Scrape the pureed mung beans off the blender and add to the pan. Pour in about six cups of water. Stir well.
Add the chilis. Season with patis (fish sauce) and with freshly ground black pepper. Bring to the boil and simmer for about an hour or until the pork is tender. You will need to stir the stew every 15 minutes or so, scraping the bottom of the pan, to make sure that the pureed mung beans do not settle and stick to the bottom.
When the pork is done, add the leafy vegetables. Simmer for another five minutes.
Ladle the stew into bowls. Drizzle with coconut cream. Top with snipped purple basil and cilantro. Serve hot.
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Mung beans with coconut cream and cilantro,
sounds like a winner.
Will try this ASAP.
I have always loved guinataang mongo(the sweet dessert/merienda type. Never imagined that it could be savory as well.
I will try this ASAP.
Thanks for this WONDERFUL site Ms. Connie!
This is a very interesting take on ginisang monggo. I’ve never used coconut milk on monggo and am very curious to see how I would like it. One thing though – what is purple basil? I don’t think I’ve seen it in supermarkets here in NY.
I love your site!
Well, it’s just called purple basil here. It is a variety of sweet basil.