SPECIAL MUNG-BEAN SOUP WITH SMOKED FISH (GINISANG MUNGGO WITH TINAPA)

Filipinos love this recipe and variants of this has came out of the hallway. For our version, let's make a no meat, only veggies and fish recipe.

Ingredients:

1/4 kl. monggo (mung beans)
3-5 cups water
cooking oil
a couple of cloves of garlic, chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
2 medium tomatoes, chopped
smoked fish flakes (tinapa flakes)
 bunch of kangkong
1 ampalaya or bittergourd
 salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:


Soak monggo beans in water overnight for easy cooking the next day. Boil monggo beans
then discard the floating monggo skin. Simmer for half an hour or so. When monggo beans became soft and thick, set it aside.

Pour oil in a pan and saute the garlic, onion, followed by tomatoes. Then mix in the smoked fish flakes, followed quickly by the cooked mung beans. Stir slightly, then add kangkong leaves and stalks. You can also and slices of bittergourd. Salt or patis and pepper to taste.

Benefits of Mung bean:
Eat monggo to reduce weight. It can be a food substitute in any slimming programs. It lowers blood cholesterol level in the blood system.

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