BULANGLANG: A Filipino Vegetable Dish

September 8, 2013
Pronounced as ‘Bu-lang-lang’.

Before I knew that this dish really exists in Philippines, this has been a part of our table for as long as I can remember. I thought that my Mom just got bored with all the dishes with coconut milk so she came up with this idea. It’s been a long time since I have not eaten this dish. There was a time that I was the one who got tired of dishes with coconut milk as I have been eating the same for how many weeks – I meant dishes with coconut milk. When I went out to buy some vegetables for dinner, the dish that my Mom used to cook suddenly appeared in my head. Still, I was not aware that this dish has a name. I bought the vegetables I wanted and some fish to be fried.

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It was funny that when I came across Google to find some Filipino dishes, I found an image almost the same as the dish I cooked. I clicked on it and that’s when I found out about Bulanglang.

Bulanglang Recipe (Vegetable Dish with Clear Soup)

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups squash, sliced
  • 1 cup eggplant, sliced
  • 1 cup long beans, sliced
  • 4 large tomatoes, sliced into wedges
  • 1 large onion, sliced into wedges
  • 3 thumb-size ginger, sliced
  • 1 cup greens ( you may use Moringa leaves), I used water spinach
  • 4 to 6 cups water
  • 2 tsp salt or to taste
  • Fried fish and cooked white rice

Instructions:

  1. Put all ingredients in a large pot and let all vegetables cook for 10 minutes or until all are tender.
  2. Do some taste test and you’re done.
  3. Serve with fried fish and white rice.

Please note that the cooking time will depend on how large or small you cut your vegetables. Make sure they are not overcooked. You can also add other vegetable of your choice like Okra and Luffa. I just used the veggies mentioned above because those are really my favorite veggies when cooking vegetables with soup or coconut milk. 

 

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This dish looks very simple and easy to cook; but it’s so delicious and healthy as well. This goes very well with white rice and fried fish… and let me mention that the best fish, personally, is fried King Fish. So bad that when I decided to take a photo and put it on my blog, there was no available King Fish and instead bought another fish. Nonetheless, I still loved my very delicious meal. I even cooked another batch after this! 🙂

Hope you could try this and let me know. Enjoy the rest of the weekend! 🙂

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