Taro Recipe #2-Filipino Laing (Taro in Coconut Milk)

Ingredients:

25 pieces (taro) leaves, dried and shredded

1/2 kilo pork, diced

1/4 cup shrimp bagoong (Shrimp Paste)

5 cloves garlic, minced

2 red onions, chopped

2 tablespoons ginger, minced

5 jalapeno pepper, sliced

1 cup coconut cream (katang gata)

2 cups coconut milk (gata)

1/2 teaspoon monosodium glutamate (MSG)

2 tablespoons of oil

1 teaspoon salt

Instructions:

1. In a casserole, sauté garlic, ginger and onions then add the pork.

2. Mix in the taro leaves.

3. Pour in the coconut milk (gata) and bring to a boil then simmer for 15 minutes.

4. Add jalapeno, shrimp paste (bagoong), salt and MSG and simmer for another 5 minutes.

5. Add the coconut cream and continue to simmer until oil comes out of the cream.

6. Serve hot with plain white rice.

We could eat so much rice with this appetizing viand.

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