Recipe: Perfect Pork Monggo

Pork Monggo. Pork monggo is not your typical ginisang monggo dish because it was prepared differently. You just need to wash the beans after removing it from the packaging and cook it immediately. Pork Monggo is a stewed mung bean dish with pork and lots of healthy vegetables.

Ginisang monggo is a delicious stew that is usually incorporated with pork to give its broth a meatier flavor. You could use seafoods such as shrimp to make it more suited. Find this Pin and more on Filipino Foods by Mercmarket. You can have Pork Monggo using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pork Monggo

1. Prepare 1/2 of kilo pork cut into cubes.
2. Prepare 1 cup of hibe/dried shrimp.
3. You need 1 cup of monggo/mung beans.
4. It's 1 of ampalaya/bittermelon no seed sliced thinly,soaked in hot water.
5. Prepare 5 cloves of garlic minced.
6. Prepare 1 of onion diced.
7. You need 2 of tomatoes cubed.
8. It's 1-2 cups of malunggay leaves.
9. Prepare 2 tablespoons of fish sauce.
10. You need 1 of pork bouillon cube.
11. It's 6 cups of water.
12. Prepare of Cooking oil.
13. It's to taste of Salt and pepper.
14. It's of Optional: crushed chicharon and tinapa (smoked fish) flakes.

I still don't have an answer as to why people typically cook monggo on a Friday. Ginisang Munggo at Chicharon is a delicious mung bean stew flavored with pork cracklings. Thick, hearty and flavorful, it's comfort food at its best! Enjoy this simple and easy, one pot mung bean stew or monggo guisado made in the Instant Pot.

Pork Monggo step by step

1. In a pot, boil washed mung beans in water (make sure beans are covered in water, add more whenever necessary to avoid burning) for 30-45 minutes or until soft/cooked. Set aside..
2. Heat pan in oil and add garlic and onion. Cook until garlic is light golden brown and onion is translucent. Add tomatoes and dried shrimp cook for about 2-3 minutes.Add ampalaya/bitter melon or gourd that was soaked in hot water to remove bitterness (make sure to rinse and remove water from ampalaya). Set aside..
3. In the same pan, add pork and cook for about 20-30 minutes or until all sides have browned. If the cut pork has fat, I like making sure the fat part is toasted to make it crunchy. Or just throw the pork in the air fryer to cook..
4. Add cooked pork, garlic, onions, ampalaya/bittermelon, tomatoes, dried shrimp and pork cube to the pot with the cooked monggo beans and bring to a boil. Add fish sauce, salt, and pepper to taste. Simmer for about 5 minutes. Turn the heat off. Add malunggay leaves and cover pot for another 5 minutes to let the residual heat cook the leaves..
5. Serve with chicharon or tinapa flakes on top and with a side of steamed white rice..

Ginisang munggo is a Filipino savory mung bean soup. It is made with mung beans, garlic, tomatoes, onions, various vegetables, and patis (fish sauce). It is cooked with pork, tinapa (smoked fish), daing (dried fish), or other seafood and meat. It is also commonly garnished with chicharon. Most Filipino use Shrimp or Pork to compliment Munggo Guisado, in this recipe we used Chicken leg and added Malabar Spinach leaves (Alugbati).