• Description

Vernacular Names: saging

Parts utilized as vegetable and availability: flowers, pith

Market presence of vegetable:marketed; not marketed

Habitat: garden, farm, swidden, surroundings, banana plantation

Availability: harvestable 1 year; available all year round

Other uses: planted

Dishes:tinunuan, sautéed, ginataan, vegetable salad, sinunuban (ginataan), cooked with chicken, atsal, bola-bola

Halang-halang na puso

Ingredients

Puso ng saging

Nilagang saba

Ingredients

Saging na saba

Sinunuban na pitchay

Ingredients

Sibuyas dahon
Pitchay
Puso ng saging
Kamatis
Bawang
Luya
Manok bisaya
gata (coconut milk)
Asin (salt)

Humba nga Puso sa Saging

Ingredients

-1 pc medium-sized banana flower bud or puso sa saging, cleaned and chopped (Musa x paradisiaca, M. balbisiana)
-coconut cream or gata from 1 large mature coconut, 1st (thick) and 2nd (thin) extractions separated
-1 cup water spinach or kangkong leaves (Ipomoea aquatic)
-1 thumb ginger or luya, crushed
-2 stalks spring onions or sibuyas dahon, chopped
-1 stalk lemongrass or tanglad, crushed or scored
-mint or hierba buena leaves
-sili espada, chopped
-annatto seeds or suwitis
-salt
-seasoning

Bola-bola puso ng saging

Ingredients

Puso ng saging
harina
asin