Filipino
Ginisang Upo (Sauteed Bottle Gourd with Shrimp)
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Ginisang Upo (Sauteed Bottle Gourd with Shrimp) is Filipino home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable and the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Peel the bottle gourd, halve, and slice into half-moons.
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Heat the oil and saute the garlic, onion, and tomato until soft.
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Add the shrimp and cook until just pink, about 2 minutes.
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Stir in the bottle gourd and fish sauce, cover, and cook until the gourd softens and releases its own liquid, about 8 minutes.
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Serve hot with rice.
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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 Ginisang Upo (Sauteed Bottle Gourd with Shrimp), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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. Ginisang Upo (Sauteed Bottle Gourd with Shrimp) carries shellfish and fish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | Yes | Adobong Baboy (Pork Adobo) |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Adobong Baboy (Pork Adobo) |
| 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
- 130 kcal
- Protein
- 12 g
- Carbs
- 8 g
- Fat
- 6 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 380 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Ginisang Upo (Sauteed Bottle Gourd with Shrimp) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. 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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