Filipino
Utan Bisaya (Visayan Boiled Vegetables)
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Utan Bisaya (Visayan Boiled Vegetables) is Filipino home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre, the soup, and the cooked vegetable. 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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Bring the water to a boil with the lemongrass and dried fish.
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Add the squash and corn and simmer until nearly tender, about 10 minutes.
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Add the eggplant and long beans and simmer 5 minutes more.
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Stir in the moringa leaves and sweet potato leaves and cook just until wilted.
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Season with the fish sauce and serve hot with rice. This is meant to be a thin, plain broth.
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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 Utan Bisaya (Visayan Boiled Vegetables), 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. Utan Bisaya (Visayan Boiled 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
- 150 kcal
- Protein
- 10 g
- Carbs
- 22 g
- Fat
- 2 g
- Fiber
- 4 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 480 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Utan Bisaya (Visayan Boiled Vegetables) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in the monsoon, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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