• Description

Vernacular Names: Monggo

Parts utilized as vegetable and availability: Pods, seeds

Habitat: rice fields, garden (plots), Swidden farms, along roads

Availability: after rice, summer (Jan-May/Jul

Other uses: cure for beri-beri (boil mungbean pods without salt)

Dishes:cooked with other vegetables, cooked with meat, cooked with chicken, cooked with squash and malabar spinach, adobong monggo, inubadang baboy, inubadang manok, kalabasa; daing, labong

Tinolang Manok with Monggo

Ingredients

Ubad ng saging (saba)
Monggo
Lemon grass
Ginger
Native chicken
Salt and pepper
Onion
Garlic
Sili

Procedure

1 . In a pot, cook monggo in at least 3 cups of water. Boil until beans are soften. Set aside
2 . In a separate pot or pan, saute garlic, onion, and ginger
3 . Add chicken and cover with water. Boil until chicken is tender
4 . Add lemongrass, Ubad, cooked monggo and chili pepper, and cook for 10 minutes
5 . Add salt and pepper to taste