Greetings!
We do all have our own favorite when it comes to food. As for me, there are many dishes and recipes that I want (favorites). In pastry and bread, I primarily love the brownies/browny. In dessert, I primarily love ice cream, macaroni salad, buko salad (young coconut salad), and Leche Flan. In viand one of my primary favorites is the "Ginisang Monggo". I can say that Ginisang Monggo is my all-time favorite when it comes to vegetable viand.
I think "Ginisang Monggo" is pop culture in my country because most (if not all) restaurants do serve Ginisang Monggo on Friday. And it is popularly partnered with fried fish (specifically Blue Scad Mackerel).
Ginisang Monggo is also a very versatile dish because there are many ways that you can cook this delicious dish. You can cook it with lots of soup, you can cook it with almost no soup, you can combine it with Bitter Gourd leaves, or you can combine it only with Bitter Gourd fruit, or you can combine them both, you can combine it with Malabar Spinach, you can combine it with Moringa Leaves, you can combine it with young Tamarind leaves or young Tamarind flowers, you can combine it with canned Sardines in tomato sauce.
Today, the variant that I am going to share is the one combined with sotanghon noodles.
I traced back "Ginisang Monggo sa Kamatis na may Sotanghon" back when I was young (which was thirty years ago). Restaurants do not cook this variant of Ginisang Monggo, most of the time they only cook Giniang Monggo combined with Bitter Gourd leaves or Moringa leaves.
As far as I remember I first encountered this recipe being cooked by my father (in the 1980s). And I think this recipe was born because of the lack of available ingredients aside from sotanghon since we Ilocanos have a knack for adding any available ingredients available at hand.
Of all the variants of Ginisang Monggo I particularly love or my most favorites are the variants combined with Bitter Gourd leaves and the one combined with Sotanghaon (which is the one that I am going to share today with the community).
So, without further ado, here's how I cook this very delicious variant of Ginisang Monggo.
- Monggo (Mung Beans)
- Sotanghon
- Tomatoes
- Onion
- Garlic
- Salt (to taste)
- Cooking oil
Wash and slice the tomatoes (you can definitely slice the tomatoes any way that you want)
Peel and slice the onion (you can definitely slice the onion any way that you want)
Peel and slice the garlic (you can definitely slice the onion any way that you want)
Wash the monggo beans and remove those that are damaged
Prepare the sotanghon
1. Boil the monggo beans
2. When you got this consistency to remove it from heat
3. Sautee the onion and the garlic in a cooking oil
4. Add the tomatoes
5. Stir occasionally until you got this consistency
6. Add the boiled monggo beans
7. Add some water, add salt, then let it boil
8. When the taste is now okay, add the sotanghon
9. When the sotanghon is cooked it is done
