3 Must-Try Filipino Fall Dishes 🍂🇵🇭 | The Social

pork

🥗Healthier: chicken

💰Cheaper: tofu

Tofu provides a plant-based protein option.

coconut milk

🥗Healthier: almond milk

💰Cheaper: regular milk

Almond milk is lower in calories.

sweet potatoes

🥗Healthier: butternut squash

💰Cheaper: regular potatoes

Regular potatoes are more widely available.

fish sauce

🥗Healthier: soy sauce

💰Cheaper: salt

Soy sauce is a common alternative with umami flavor.

Prepare the vegetables by chopping them into bite-sized pieces, including squash, long beans, okra, and eggplant.

Sauté the vegetables until they release moisture and shrink in size, concentrating the flavors.

For kare kare, cook the eggplant, long beans, and bok choy in peanut sauce until tender.

For dessert, combine coconut cream with Sabba bananas, sweetened jackfruit, sugar, sago pearls, and glutinous rice balls made with ube extract.

Serve the kare kare hot and the dessert warm.

Cooking Techniques

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