One of the best thing when you are living in the province is you can get things for free, it is either from your own garden or from neighbor’s backyard. The other day we decided to cook monggo beans or mung beans in coconut milk, we had two head of coconuts from a neighbor.  Mung beans is a high source of protein, fiber, antioxidants and phytonutrients and  have some huge health benefits to offer, including helping to lower high cholesterol levels and protect against heart disease.

Ingredients:

Mung beans, garlic, onions, salt, moringa leaves, coconut milk

Cooking mung beans in coconut milk is very simple, all you have to do is boil the mung beans in second milk extract of grated coconut and once the mung beans are cooked, you can start adding the ingredients as well as the first milk extract from the coconut.

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Sautéed Monggo Beans is one of the popular cooked vegetables in my home country, I grew up seeing and eating them. It is always present in every restaurant in our town so I am not surprised anymore seeing Monggo Beans abroad. So for a change I cooked local food, I sautéed the monggo beans I bought from the Filipino store in Seoul.

Cooking local food doesn’t mean I need complete ingredients like the leaves of bitter melon, chicharon and etc., I used pork and lettuce alternatively.

To start with cooking, the monggo beans need to be boiled and when they are cooked or cracked open.  Separate the slop and the beans, and in a clean pot sauté garlic and onion, add the meat and fry them a little until brown. Drop the monggo beans, add the slop and more water. Add salt and let it boil, and add the lettuce!

With the presence of Asian store anywhere, cooking and eating food I can only eat in the Philippines is now possible to eat overseas. I have been eating sausage and ramen noodles these past few days so I decided to saute monggo beans,  I boiled the monggo beans before sauteing it.

As it was first time for my husband to see me cooking sauteed monggo, he was so in patient waiting when I am going to finished cooking. He is not concerned about the tasting the food but he is more concerned of the gas bill. Lol!

After boiling the monggo beans I saute garlic and onion and fry the pork with it. When the pork is already brown I add the monggo beans and the slop, I add more water and salt to taste. I let it boil for few minutes and I add the lettuce and let it cook for few minutes.