Filipino

Bagoong Guisado (Sauteed Shrimp Paste)

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Bagoong Guisado (Sauteed Shrimp Paste) is Filipino home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the condiment. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

25 min Medium

Ingredients

Serves
6

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Finely dice the pork belly and render it in a dry pan until crisp.

  2. Add the garlic and shallots and cook until fragrant.

  3. Stir in the bagoong alamang, tomato, and brown sugar, and cook over low heat, stirring often, until it darkens and thickens, about 15 minutes.

  4. Stir in the vinegar and chilies and cook 2 minutes more.

  5. Cool and keep in a jar in the fridge. Spoon over rice, green mango, or into pinakbet.

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Serve it with

A Filipino dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Bagoong Guisado (Sauteed Shrimp Paste), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Bagoong Guisado (Sauteed Shrimp Paste) carries shellfish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Bagoong Guisado (Sauteed Shrimp Paste)
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten No
Shellfish Yes Atchara (Pickled Green Papaya Relish)
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
160 kcal
Protein
6 g
Carbs
6 g
Fat
12 g
Fiber
0 g
Sugar
6 g
Sodium
820 mg
Saturated fat
5 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Bagoong Guisado (Sauteed Shrimp Paste) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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