• Description

Vernacular Names: chinese malunggay, malunggito, moringgito

Parts utilized as vegetable and availability: leaves, shoots

Cultivated/Foraged: planted

Market presence of vegetable:non-marketed

Habitat: homegarden, anywhere

Availability: wet season, June to December; all year round; July-August

Other uses: cure for anemia;
increase blood pressure;
Vitamin C

Dishes:Sautéed, soup, dinengdeng, nilaga, cooked with mungbean

Dinengdeng

Ingredients

Gendey
Marunggito (talbos)
Buto ng patani
laman ng kamoteng baging
Talong
Kamatis
luya
bagoong
Anti
udong (fress water shrimp)

Procedure

1 . Gayatin at linis ang mga sangkap
2 . Magpakulo ng tubig
3 . Ilagay ang kamote, patani, laman ng kamoteng baging pag nakulo na ang tubig at haluin
4 . Isunod ang talong luya, kamatis
5 . Ilagay ang udong o fresh water shrimp
6 . Timplahan ito ng bagoong
7 . Ilagay ang sangkap na dahon tulad ng marunggito, gendey at anti