Easiest Way to Make Perfect PINAKBET (Ilokano)

PINAKBET (Ilokano).

You can cook PINAKBET (Ilokano) using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of PINAKBET (Ilokano)

1. You need 1 lb of pork shoulder / pork belly.
2. Prepare 1 of onion sliced.
3. It's 3 cloves of garlic crushed.
4. You need 1 of roma tomato sliced.
5. Prepare 3 tbsp of Fish Sauce.
6. You need 1/2 of bitter gourd (ampalaya).
7. You need 1 of eggplant sliced diagonally.
8. It's 1 cup of large diced squash.
9. Prepare 5 pcs of okra halved across.
10. Prepare 8 pcs of string beans (into 3 inch long).
11. It's 1 of small sized ginger smashed.
12. You need 1 cup of water.

PINAKBET (Ilokano) instructions

1. Cook meat until fat is rendered, remove excess oil. Add garlic cook until slightly browned..
   
2. Add onions and tomato. Cook until onion is translucent at tomato is soft and almost mushed..
3. Add fish sauce/ shrimp paste, then add ginger to lessen pungency of the fish sauce. Stir until the meat is coated with the sauce..
4. Add water then bring to a boil..
5. Add in okra and eggplant first and cook for 1 minute. Then add the rest of the vegetables (string beans, squash, bitter gourd)..
6. Simmer until the vegetables are cooked and sauce is reduced..
7. Serve hot. Best eaten with steamed rice. Enjoy!.