Vegetarian Bopis
I had this book about diet & health titled “Healing Wonders of Diet, Effective Guide to Diet Therapy“. It’s a diet guide for different health disorders, prevention and understanding of the food we eat. The recipes in the book are mostly vegetarian dishes. It contains some of those traditional Filipino meat recipes like Afritada, Adobo, Sweet & Sour and Ginataan; all made with tokwa, vegemeat and gluten (meat substitutes). But my favorite Bopis is not on the list and because of that I was inspired to make my own version..tadaaaa..”Vegetarian Bopis”..
Ingredients:
1 tbsp. canola/vegetable oil
1 box of fresh button mushroom (approx. 200 gms.)
1 onion
1 small tomato
3 cloves of garlic
1 large carrot
1 small potato
1 small green bell pepper
1 small red bell pepper
2 tbsp. dark soy sauce
2 tbsp. vinegar
1 laurel leaf
1 tsp. thai chili sauce or sugar
half cup of vegetable stock
an inch-snap of ginger
half tbsp. bread crumbs
atsuete for coloring
salt
pepper
Procedure:
-combine the atsuete (you decide for the right amount) with the lukewarm vegetable stock. Let the colors blend in the stock, set aside.
-finely chop the onion, garlic, ginger, carrot, potato, green & red bell pepper.
-coarsely chop the button mushroom.
-in a wok, sauté the onion, garlic and ginger in hot oil and as it softens add the remaining vegetables and sweat it for a while. While stirring it gently; add in the soy sauce, chili sauce, vegetable stock, vinegar and bay leaf and simmer it until the vegetables absorb some of the stock. Finally add the mushroom and breadcrumbs then add salt & pepper. Remove it from the heat just as the mushroom is cook and the mixture should be almost dry. Cooking time is fast compare to the traditional meat bopis, be aware not to overcook the veggies specially the mushrooms.
-serve with your favorite sinangag (garlic fried rice) or hot steamed rice.
Very easy to make and good for diet conscious people. Keep posting similar food items like this
Comment by Mel — February 2, 2006 @ 4:36 am
This would be a great accompaniment to grilled hito or dalag! Bookmarking this page.
Comment by Sassy — February 15, 2006 @ 1:41 am