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Master the art of perfectly sliced spam with these essential meat slicer tips!

Did you know there is a meat slicer for canned goods? There are some people who would like perfect slices when cooking a meal. Those who are in a hurry Carmina found something quick and easy to use. Carmina found a luncheon stainless meat slicer something similar with an egg slicer. Carmina made her purchase from  Rose Underwear Shop  Online Shopee for 80.00 pesos ($1.40) not including shipping and handling. All you need is remove the luncheon meat from the can and place it on top making sure the slicer is open by moving the blade up. Close the lid which is the stainless-steel blade slice the luncheon meat. It is easier if you're using both hands however were able to do it using one hand while taking the video. NOT SPONSORED. Video can be found in my  Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  and click subscribe for free. Thank you for the support.

List of Filipino Vegetables Used in Filipino Dishes


In the Philippines we have variety of different type of vegetables that are cooked in our Filipino dishes.

Sayote
  • Chicken tinola 
  • Sauté vegetables cooked with shrimp or pork

Upo 
  • Saute vegetable with shrimp or pork 
  • Made into a soup

Mungo Beans 
  • Cooked with spinach and shrimp or pork

Malunggay
  • Cooked with mungo beans
  • Soup 
  • Made into pandesal (bread)

Ampalaya (bitter melon)
  • Cooked in gata (coconut milk) 
  • Saute with shrimp
  • Salad with vinegar, onion, tomato, salt and black pepper
  • Eaten with buro (fermented rice)

Kamote (sweet potato) comes in color purple or yellow
  • Fried
  • Boiled
  • Baked 
  • Added in Dessert such as ginatan
  • Added in Fresh lumpia

Pechay or Chinese cabbage 
  • Cooked in Nilagang
  • Steam
  • Stir-fried

Kangkong 
  • Cooked with sinigang (sour soup) 
  • Fried by adding batter 
  • Steam eaten with bagong (shrimp paste)

Puso ng saging or Banana Blossom
  • Cooked has salad
  • Soup

Gabi (taro) 
  • Cooked in singigang (sour soup)

Mustasa
  • Cooked in salad 
  • Soup
  • Be boiled and eaten with buro (fermented rice)

Singkamas or Jicama 
  • Eaten raw by adding it with vinegar, soy sauce 
  • Salt

Alugbati 
  • Cooked as soup
  • Salad 
  • Stew cooked with fish

Sigarilyas 
  •  Cooked with coconut milk (gata)

Sitaw or String Beans 
  • Cooked in singigang (sour soup)
  • Sauté with soy sauce, onion, pork and garlic

Kamoteng kahoy Cassava root 
  • Cassava cake
  • Boiled yucca

Tanglad (Lemon grass) 
  • Added in rice when cooking in rice cooker
  • Dessert 
  • Juice

Taro Leaves
  • Cooked to make Laing and coconut milk

Sweet Potato Leaves
  • Stir fry
  • Boiled made into salad

Patola  
  • Cooked soup
  • Sautéd vegetable with shrimp

Ubod – (coconut palm heart)
  •  Fresh lumpia

Atsuete  
  • Food coloring

Bawang
  •  Native garlic – use for longanisa

Green Papaya 
  • Cooked with chicken tinola
Japanese Eggplant
  • Fried dip with vinegar
  • Steam made into a salad with vinegar, tomato, onion, salt and black pepper
  • Cooked with pinakbet or Kare kare
  • Torta (omelette)
Squash
  • Pinakbet 
  • Ukoy
Okra
  • Pinakbet
  • Sinigang (sour soup)
  • Steam 

Calamasi (Philippine Lime)
  • Citrus juice
  • Dipping sauce by adding soy sauce and hot pepper




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