Filipino
Nilagang Baboy (Boiled Pork and Vegetables)
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Nilagang Baboy (Boiled Pork and Vegetables) is Filipino home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. 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 pork, water, onion, and peppercorns in a pot, bring to a boil, and skim any foam.
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Cover and simmer until the pork is tender, about 45 minutes.
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Add the potato, saba banana, and corn, and simmer until the potato is tender, about 15 minutes.
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Stir in the cabbage and bok choy and cook just until wilted, about 3 minutes.
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Season with the fish sauce and serve hot with rice and a saucer of patis and calamansi.
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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 Nilagang Baboy (Boiled Pork and Vegetables), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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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. Nilagang Baboy (Boiled Pork and Vegetables) carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| 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
- 560 kcal
- Protein
- 22 g
- Carbs
- 20 g
- Fat
- 44 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 6 g
- Sodium
- 480 mg
- Saturated fat
- 16 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Nilagang Baboy (Boiled Pork and Vegetables) takes about 90 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. It is at its best in the monsoon and winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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