Filipino
Laing (Taro Leaves in Coconut Milk)
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Laing (Taro Leaves in Coconut Milk) 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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Combine the coconut milk, pork belly, garlic, ginger, and shallots in a pot and bring to a simmer.
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Cook until the pork is tender and the coconut milk has reduced and started to release its oil, about 20 minutes.
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Add the dried taro leaves and bagoong alamang, pressing the leaves gently into the liquid, but do not stir from here.
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Simmer without stirring until the leaves are fully soft, about 30 minutes. Stirring too early is what makes taro leaves itch the mouth.
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Add the chilies for the final 5 minutes, then 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 Laing (Taro Leaves in Coconut Milk), 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. Laing (Taro Leaves in Coconut Milk) carries shellfish and coconut. 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 | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | Yes | Adobong Baboy (Pork Adobo) |
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
- 580 kcal
- Protein
- 11 g
- Carbs
- 17 g
- Fat
- 52 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 500 mg
- Saturated fat
- 35 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Laing (Taro Leaves in Coconut Milk) takes about 60 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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