Salads & Sides

Six recipes in this category.

Sautéed yardlong beans with red onion and chili in brown sauce on a cream stoneware plate, on a red-and-white striped cloth over a wooden board, with onion, garlic and long beans behind

Jicama and papaya slaw topped with carrots, peanuts, and cilantro in a green fruit-shell bowl

Jicama-Papaya Slaw

Cooking time: Cook 7 min
Yield: 5-7

Steamed okra salad with sliced tomato and red onion on a white plate

Steamed Okra Salad

A folksy farm-table side

Cooking time: Cook 21 min
Servings: Serves 3–4

Bowl of chopsuey stir-fried vegetables with shrimp, chicken, carrots, and snow peas

Chopsuey

Stir-Fried Vegetables

Cooking time: Cook 9 min
Yield: 5-7
Difficulty: Intermediate

Water spinach adobo glazed in oyster sauce with fried garlic on a white plate

Adobong Kangkong

Water Spinach Adobo

Cooking time: Cook 6 min
Yield: 2-4
Difficulty: Beginner

Bowl of ginisang munggo mung bean soup topped with boiled shrimp and flaked tinapa

Ginisang Munggo

Cooking time: Cook 10 min
Yield: 4
Difficulty: Beginner

Bowl of ginisang togue: stir-fried bean sprouts and fried tofu cubes, served with chopsticks

Ginisang Togue

Cooking time: Cook 20 min
Yield: 5-7
Difficulty: Beginner

Stir-fried broccoli, bell pepper, carrot, mushrooms and beans in brown sauce on a blue-rimmed white plate, with a bottle of Mama Sita's Mushroom Oyster Sauce standing behind

Vegetable chopsuey, with the Mushroom Oyster Sauce it is made with behind it.