• Description

Vernacular Names: bungkukan, bunkukan, sampernando

Parts utilized as vegetable and availability: unfurled/unopened leaves, cormels, shoots

Cultivated/Foraged: Planted, Gathered

Market presence of vegetable:marketed

Habitat: upland, areas with less water, swidden, along river

Availability: all year round (shoots), March to April (corms); Dec-April, every 4 months, talbos-anytime

Other uses: used to make kalu-ko (snack) where middle of the corm is scraped and brought back to the corm and cooked in coconut milk

Dishes:ginataan (shoots), inasiman (shoots), menudo (cormel), igado (cormel) at sinigang (cormel), sautéed, ginataan (leaves)

Suman na gallang

Ingredients

Gallang
gata (coconut milk)
asukal

Procedure

1 . Balatan ang gallang at hiwain ng maliliit
2 . Hugasan ito ng mabuti, bago ito yadyarin upang maging pino
3 . Ilagay sa dahon ng saging at baluting maiigi
4 . Ilagay sa kaldero at pakuluan ng 30 minutes
5 . Ihanda ang pampatamis, pakuluan ang gata
6 . Ilagay ang asukal, tuluyan itong haluin
7 . Maari na itong hanguin pag malapot na at luto na ang gata