Gabi leaves are soaked and cooked in coconut milk. There are other ingredients that go into it but the laing wouldn’t be laing if it weren’t for the gabi leaves in coconut milk.
Laing can be cooked in various ways. If you like it soaked in coconut milk, go right ahead and do it.You can also opt for a dried version of laing. Either way, it’s good.
Our Lovely Laing Recipe
I want to share with your our lovely laing recipe. Nothing too special about it except for the tender loving care we put into it. ❤️
Check out our ingredients below:
Gabi leaves for a lovely laing.Make sure to use freshly squeezed coconut milk. Separate the milk from the first squeeze. Do the same thing with the second squeeze.Stalks from the gabi leaves and the gabi vegetable.Daing na labahita (dried salted fish) Fry it ahead of time and cut it into pieces. Make sure to take out the bones of the fish as well. This will serve as the topping for your laing.These are basic ingredients for most Filipino dishes.This is an optional ingredient. If you want to include it, make sure to wash it first.
How To Cook Laing Our Way
Now for the good part. Here’s how to cook laing our way.
Boil the gabi leaves, slices of fruit, and stems together. While that’s happening, saute the pork, ginger, onion, and garlic. Wait until the pork is cooked.
Once the gabi leaves, slices of gabi vegetables, and stems have come to a boil, combine them with the pork. Then add in the second batch of freshly squeezed coconut milk. Then simmer.
Transfer to a serving dish and top it with some fried daing na labahita.
Bonus: Lovely Laing Goes So Well With Pork Binagoonan
Laing can be eaten alone or with rice (as always!) 😀
This lovely dish also goes so well with another tasty dish called pork binagoonan.
Laing goes so well with binagoonan. We just had to cook some as well.
Some laing recipes call for bagoong. As you can see, we did not include bagoong in our list of laing ingredients.
Instead, we chose to make it into a second dish that can be paired with laing. So, here’s our pork bagoong recipe. 😀
Check out the ingredients below:
Can’t do without any of these ingredients to come up with a super tasty dish.One of the main ingredients of our dish.Bagoong is one of our local condiments. It’s made out of shrimp paste or fermented fish. It’s oh so good.
Add in the bagoong and cook. Feel free to add some vinegar to balance the saltiness of the dish. Then transfer to a serving dish to pair it up with the lovely laing. 😃
Laing and pork bagoong make a perfect combination.
How do you cook and eat your laing? Feel free to share some of your tips and tricks with us. We’d love to hear from you.
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