{"id":9022,"date":"2015-04-26T00:44:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T07:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kawalingpinoy.com\/?p=9022"},"modified":"2023-09-11T10:32:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T17:32:36","slug":"laswa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kawalingpinoy.com\/laswa\/","title":{"rendered":"Laswa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Laswa<\/strong> is ready in minutes and loaded with nutrient-rich vegetables you'll feel good serving the whole family. It's nutritious, delicious, and makes a great side dish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am going on a vacation to the Philippines in a few weeks, and it will be a super special trip. We've all gone for a visit here and there over the past years, but this is the first since we left for the U.S. decades ago that my brother and his family, my daughter, and I will be home at the same time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It's my mother's birthday in June, and it will be a wonderful surprise for her to have us all together. I am sure she would love to see this face. #mynephew #littlepaeng<\/p>\n\n\n

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I can't wait, you guys! I am so excited to see my mother and give her a big, tight hug. Naturally, I also look forward to the obscene amount of good food. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Food blogger's dream, yeah! The early morning wet market trips. The carinderias with their line of turo-turo<\/em> dishes. The panaderias<\/em> with their freshly baked pandesal<\/a>.  My mother's backyard alone would be a culinary adventure!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Along with ornamental plants, she has mango, papaya, atis, santol,<\/em> guava, and other fruit-bearing trees, which I am sure will be heavy with this summer's bounty. She also has a thriving vegetable plot; a pot of this Laswa would be a matter of picking the produce from her garden. You can't get any fresher and closer to the earth than that! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is laswa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Laswa is a boiled vegetable soup that originated in Iloilo. It's one of the many forms of sinabawang gulay <\/em>in Filipino cuisine, similar to the dinengdeng<\/a> of Ilocos, bulanglang in Batangas, and sabaw na utan in the Visayas and Mindanao region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It's a simple dish that's nutritious, delicious, economical, and versatile. You can include virtually whatever fresh produce is plentiful in the area or in season. Patola, eggplant, sigarilyas, long beans, tomatoes, banana heart, okra, calabasa, malunggay leaves, alugbati, takway, sigarilyas, and saluyot are just some of the many vegetables you can use. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Laswa is seasoned with salt. Its rich texture and flavor come from the medley of fresh ingredients, such as sweetness from the kalabasa, slight viscosity from the okra and saluyot, and umami flavor from the shrimp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like the clean taste of the vegetable soup, but it's common to enhance the flavor with patis, shrimp bouillon, or Magic sarap. You can make the dish with other types of protein like fish and salted dried shrimp (kalkag) or completely vegan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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