• Description

Vernacular Names: basok, basuk (T'boli), kalabasa

Parts utilized as vegetable and availability: fruits, shoots, flowers

Cultivated/Foraged: planted

Habitat: homegarden, farm, garden

Availability: harvestable 6 months after planting;
all year round

Dishes:soup, grilled, Sautéed, soup, law-uy (flowers), mixed with sinabawang isda (flowers), tortang kalabasa (fruit), pinakbet (fruit), bola-bolang kalabasa (fruit), ginataan

Snobow

Ingredients

Talbos ng kalabasa
Bawing
Patani
Sayote
Sgotong heet
Talong
Sitaw
Asin (salt)

Semia Lemnaw

Ingredients

• ½ pc chayote or s’yuti fruit, peeled and cubed (Sechium edule)
• ½ cup squash or kalabasa fruit, cubed (Cucurbita moschata)
• 1 pc eggplant or talong fruit, cubed (Solanum melongena)
• ½ pc bitter gourd or ampalaya fruit, cored and cubed (Momordica charantia)
• 1 cup sponge gourd or kwa/patola, peeled and sliced (Luffa cylindrica)
• ½ cup black nightshade or koti leaves (Solanum americanum)
• 1 smoked fish or tinapa, flaked
Alternative: 1 can sardines, sauce discarded
• 1 medium head shallot or sibuyas, chopped
• 5 cloves garlic or ahos, crushed
• cooking oil or mantika
• seasoning
• salt

S’nobow

(Mixed Vegetables Soup)
Brgy. Datal D’lanag, T’Boli, South Cotabato

Ingredients

• 1 pc small sponge gourd or patola/kwa (Luffa cylindrica)
• 1 cup black nightshade or koti leaves (Solanum americanum)
• 5-6 pcs bitter tomato or s’gotong heet (Solanum aethiopicum)
• 1 medium piece chayote or s’yuti, peeled and cubed (Sechium edule)
• 1 cup squash shoots or talbos ng kalabasa (Cucurbita moschata)
• 1 pc medium eggplant or talong, cubed (Solanum melongena)
• ½ cup lima beans or patani (Phaseolus lunatus)
• 1 cup yardlong bean pods or sitaw (Vigna unguiculata ssp. sesquipedalis)
• 2 stalks spring onions or sibuyas dahon
• 1 medium head shallot or sibuyas bombay
• 2-3 pcs tomatoes or kamatis
• native basil or bawing (Ocimum basilicum)
• Salt

Monggo na may Gulay

Ingredients

Monggo
Okra
Kalabasa
Talong
Pork

Pinakbet

Ingredients

Kalabasa
Ampalaya
Sitaw
Bunga ng malunggay
Alamang