Black-Eyed Beans With Pork & Himbabao Flowers
This recipe is from Cagayan Region 2. For those not very familiar with Himbabao or alucon (a tagalog version). It is a caterpillar shaped flowers and distributed throughout the Philippines from Luzon to Mindanao. If you want to see the image, click here.
Ingredients:
4 cups water
2 tablespoons cooking oil
1 teaspoon minced garlic
2 tablespoons sliced onion
1/2 cup sliced tomatoes
1 cup sliced pork
5 cup dried black-eyed beans, cooked
1 tablespoon salt
3 cups himbabao
How to cook black-eyed beans with pork and himbabao:
- Heat water. As soon as it boils, add beans and cook 2 minutes. Set aside for 1 hour. Sauté garlic, onion, tomatoes and pork.
- Add beans including broth. Boil, then simmer until almost soft. Season with salt cook 4 minutes.
- Bring to a boil once more and add himbabao flowers. Cook 7 minutes longer. Serve hot. Six servings.
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Alukun in Ilocano, Himbabao in tagalog, Alibabag in Itawit, Alibabak in Ibanag ,this vegetable tree is fast becoming extinct in the country landscape. During my childhood days , this tree is oftenly used as fencing post. The flower of this tree goes well with mongo but if gathered fresh , it can be cooked alone with a cup of water for a cup of the flower and a tea spoonfull of bagoong.It also goes well as one of the ingredients in pinakbet , but it should be the last to mix among the ingredients. The thing is , you should gather it fresh and immediately use it for cooking ingredients , otherwise it does not taste well.
I missed that dish. That would be very exotic or extremely unavailable in groceries here in the US.
I hope it could be featured in Foodnetwork.com as exotic healthy dish.
Very nice dish, but most of the kids don`t know it.
hmmm, i smell a yummy dish!!! i don’t remember the last time i ate alucon but it sure tasted good. i think there’s the frozen alucon sold at T&T in Vancouver. that recipe is worth a try