farmeric November 6th, 2009

This is a story as told by Dr. Vivencio Mamaril, a member of the Bureau of Plant Industry Biotech Core Team.

Among the vegetables we eat, malunggay has already earned various tags- healthiest vegetable, a miracle tree, lowly but high in nutrition, and many others. It’s now even tagged as the most healthiest food and miracle food as well.

Malunggay Vitamins and Minerals

There must be something and someone in malunggay that made it as the most popular vegetable in the country today.

Here comes the story, as it happened and is happening before Dr. Vivencio Mamaril very own eyes.

The basic, malunggay has seven times in amount of vitamin C as compared with orange fruit, four times the calcium in milk, four times the vitamin A in carrot and three times the potassium in banana.

According to Dr. Mamaril, it has been so long time that we were not aware of the vitamins and other nutrients malunggay can provide not until the Department of Agriculture (DA) made some noise about malunggay.

The Department of Agriculture (DA), through its Biotechnology Program Implementation Unit, were surprised to learned that there is a business enterprise that is much interested to buy malunggay foliage and seeds. The demand for foliage and seeds is so huge that no single grower or an aggregate of growers can fill the demand.

The truth is, there are no malunggay growers who can produce seeds and foliage in great quantity, and there is no existing technology for it as well. Due to this challenge, Continue Reading »

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farmeric September 19th, 2009

Moringa (Malunggay) Shanghai Rolls

Ingredients:

• 12 ½ cups ground pork
• 2 ½ cups onion



• 2 ½ cups garlic
• 10 cups carrots (cubed)
• 2 ½ cups flour
• 10 pcs. egg
• 1 ¼ cups tomato sauce
• 5 cups malunggay leaves
• 10 tsp iodized salt
• 100 pcs. lumpia wrapper
• 7 ½ cups cooking oil
• kinchay

Procedures:

1. In a mixture bowl, place the ground pork, garlic, onion, carrots, flour, eggs, tomato sauce, kinchay and malunggay leaves. Continue Reading »

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farmeric August 28th, 2009

This is a very simple and quick to cook malunggay recipe and no need for any fish or meat.

Corn with Malunggay Leaves - Simple Malunggay Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 c. grated young corn
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 head onion
• 3 c. water
• 1 small sponge gourd (luffa)
• 1 c. malunggay leaves
• 1-1/2 Accent
• salt to taste

Preparations:

Saute garlic and onion in medium fry pan. Add water and let it boil. Then add the corn, stirring often to avoid burning. When cooked, add the gourd and malunggay.

That’s all! A simple and quick malunggay recipe.

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farmeric August 17th, 2009

Sauted Malunggay Pods

Ingredients:

• 2 c. fresh Malunggay Pods
• 2 T. shortening
• 1 tsp. minced garlic
• 2 T. sliced onion
• 1/2 c. sliced tomatoes
• 1 c. boiled beef, diced
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 c. fresh lima or butter bean seeds, peeled
• 1 c. green cowpea or yard-long bean pods cut into 1-1/2″ lengths

Preparation:
Cut malunggay pods lengthwise into 4 piececs. Slice white pulp including tender seeds. Discard outer covering. Cut pulp into 1-1/2 inch lenghts. Saute garlic, onion, and tomatoes. Add beef. Cover, and cook 2 minutes. Season with fish paste and salt. Add lima or butter beans, and cook 3 minutes. Add malunggay pulp and cowpea or yard-liong bean. Cover, and cook 10 minutes. Serves 6.

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farmeric August 11th, 2009

Ingredients:

• 1 c. pure coconut milk
• 1/3 c. pure coconut milk reserve
• 5 pcs. fish, preferably tilapia
• 1 onion bulb, sliced
• 1 head garlic, crushed
• 3 tomatoes , quartered
• 8-10 winged beans or string beans, quartered
• 1 small pc ginger
• 3 pcs bell pepper, green and red, quartered
• 1/2 c. Malunggay leaves
• 1-2 T cooking oil
• 1 t. crushed  black pepper
• 1/2 c. pigeon or Congo peas
• 1 c. cubed yellow  sweet potato

Preparation:

Saute garlic in oil until brown. Add onion. Continue Reading »

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farmeric August 1st, 2009

Ingredients:

• 1/2 c. dried pigeon pea or Congo pea boiled in 1 c. water
• 2 c. water
• 2 c. cowpea or yard-long bean cut into 2″ lenghts
• 2 c. malunggay leaves
• 1/2 medium onion, sliced
• 2 large tomatoes, sliced
• 1 medium-size fish cut into slices and boiled
• 10 young okra, cut into 1″ lengths
• 1/4 c. fish paste

Preparation:

Add water to cooked piegon pea or Congo pea in large saucepan. Boil, and add cowpea or yard-long bean. Cover and cook for 3 minutes. Add fish paste, onion, tomatoes, fish and okra. Cover and boil for 2 minutes. Do not stir vegetables. Add malunggay leaves, cover, and cook for 5 minutes more. Serve hot. Serves 6.

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