Laing Recipe,also known as Ginataang Gabi is equally famous and tasty as the Bicol Express.The dish's main ingredients are taro stem and leaf cooked in coconut milk,salted with fermented shrimp or fish bagoong.It is also haevily spiced with red hot chilies called siling labuyo(BIRDS EYE CHILI).
LAING INGREDIENTS:
*25 pieces gabi (taro) leaves,dried and sheredded
*1/2 kilo pork,diced
* 1/4 cup shrimp bagoong
*5 gloves garlic,minced
*2 red onions, chopped
*2 tablespoons ginger,minced
*5 red hot chilies or siling labuyo,sliced
* 1 cup coconut cream(katang gata)
*2 cups coconut milk (gata)
*1/2 teaspoon vetsin or monosodium glutamate (MSG)optional
*2 tablespoon of oil
*1 teaspoon salt
INSTRUCTION
*In a caserole,saute garlic,ginger and onions then add the pork.
*Mix in the gabi leaves.
*Pour in the coconut milk (gata) and bring to a boil then simmer for 15 minutes.
*Add red hot chilies,bagoong and salt and MSG and simmer for another 5 minutes.
*Add the coconut cream and continue to simmer until oils come out of the cream.
*Serve hot with plain white rice.
Yummy!