Erwan Heussaff is cooking four affordable and healthy Filipino inspired recipes that you can try at home! For our first video of 2024, we made four dishes that are good for both your health and wallet: Sinabawang Talbos ng Kamote, Sarciadong Galunggong, Ginataang Kalabasa at Bangus, and Lumpiang Hubad.
Each meal costs less than 100 PHP or $2 USD to cook and makes good use of fresh and nutrient-rich ingredients that will give you a healthy start for the year ahead. Let us know which one is your favorite recipe in the comments!
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(0:00) Intro
(1:25) Sinabawang Talbos ng Kamote
(3:00) Sarciadong Galunggong
(5:18) Ginataang Kalabasa at Bangus
(6:40) Lumpiang Hubad, Outro
SINABAWANG TALBOS NG KAMOTE
Ingredients:
2 pcs tomatoes, sliced
1 pc native/red onions, sliced
100g or 2 pcs sweet potatoes/orange kamote, cut into 1 inch chunks
5 cups water
1 tbsp bagoong
2 tbsp calamansi juice
100g Ground chicken
1 tbsp all-purpose flour
1 bundle talbos ng kamote/sweet potato leaves
Procedure:
1. In a pot, add water, tomatoes, onions, and sweet potatoes. Bring to a boil and simmer for 2-3 minutes. 2. Season with bagoong and calamansi juice.
3. Mix chicken and flour to make dumplings. Portion into 1 inch chunks and place in simmering broth. Simmer for 2 minutes.
4. Turn off the heat and add talbos ng kamote.
Makes 5 servings
Price per recipe Php 93.15
Price per serving Php 18.63
SARCIADONG GALUNGGONG
Ingredients:
200g galunggong
2 tbsp oil
1 pc native Onions
2 cloves Garlic
2 pcs Tomatoes
1 tbsp tomato paste
¼ tsp salt
â…› tsp pepper
¼ cup water
2 pcs egg
Procedure:
1. In a pan with hot oil, brown your fish on both sides and set aside.
2. In the same pan, saute onions, garlic, and tomatoes until tender. Add tomato paste and cook for a few seconds or until tomato paste has caramelized. Season with salt and pepper then add water.
3. Place galunggong and pour in your egg. Cook for 1 minute or until egg has set.
Makes 4 servings
Price per recipe Php 128.53
Price per serving Php 32.13
GINATAANG KALABASA AT BANGUS
Ingredients:
2 tbsp oil
1 pc red onion, chopped
1 tbsp vinegar
¼ cup water
100g kalabasa, peeled and cut into chunks
½ cup coconut milk
1/2 whole (200g) bangus, cut into steaks
2 tsp patis
2 tbsp chili oil (optional)
Procedure:
1. In a pan with hot oil, saute onions and kalabasa. Add vinegar, water, and coconut milk.
2. Add your bangus and let it simmer for 2-3 minutes or until fully-cooked and kalabasa is tender. Season with patis and serve with chili oil.
Makes 3 servings
Price per recipe Php 98.63
Price per serving Php 32.88
LUMPIANG HUBAD
Ingredients:
2 tbsp oil
1 block tofu, compressed/drained of excess liquid then cut into half inch blocks
1 pc orange kamote
1 pc carrot
1 pc red onion
100g bean sprouts
¼ tsp salt
â…› tsp pepper
1 tbsp brown sugar
1 tbsp cornstarch, dissolved in ¼ cup water
2 tsp soy sauce
1 tbsp peanut butter
Procedure:
1. In a pan with hot oil, brown your tofu and set aside.
2. In the same pan, saute kamote, carrots, and onions. 3. Add bean sprouts then season with salt and pepper.
4. In a separate pan, combine sugar, cornstarch slurry, and soy sauce. SImmer until thickened then add peanut butter. Pour sauce into veggie mix and toss until veggies are well coated.
Makes 6 servings
Price per recipe Php 93.75
Price per serving Php 15.63
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It’s becoming increasingly difficult to be healthy because people are always trying to sell us things, and nutrition, in general, is really confusing. So today I’m going to show you a couple of Filipino dishes that are both healthy and really tasty and easy to put together
To get you started on your fat-loss journey this year. I am the number one victim of food marketing. I am constantly craving things I see on Instagram, on YouTube, and I end up looking for those food and I end up overeating those foods as well.
So that’s why I like cooking at home because I can be really in control of each and every ingredient that I put in my food, and because I’m cooking at home, I don’t want to spend hours in the kitchen, so I try to look for recipes that are really quick to do
And that are good for me as well. Filipino food, in general, is not necessarily seen as a very healthy or vegetable-forward cuisine, but we do have a lot of dishes that are just great and tasty, full of protein and full of veg, but they’re just not as sexy
As the dishes that we love eating and we love talking about, we love cooking. And these are the dishes I’ll show you today things that are very popular in provinces, in most households but don’t necessarily take the limelight when it comes to representing our cuisine.
So let’s get to it. These are all really low-calorie and really quick to make. But what’s even better— they’re good for you. We have a lot of soups and dishes that use the tops of a lot of our favorite root crops or vegetables in the Philippines.
Depending on where you go, they use different tops. The camote top, for me, is one of my favorites. I’ve seen it used in laing, I’ve seen it used in soups. Today, I’ll show you my version of a “Sinabawang Talbos ng Kamote.” Best part about all the dishes that we’re doing today—
All of them are quite inexpensive. They’re all Php100 in terms of the portions that we’re going to be giving you. Cut up our tomatoes. Then, we’re going to chop up some sweet potatoes. Red onion. Fill your pot with water. And then, we’ll just bring everything to a boil together.
Next, we’re going to add some bagoong for some seasoning. This could be the dish by adding the leaves once this is kind of cooked and good to go. And we’re also going to add some calamansi juice as well to it. But if you want to add some protein,
We can always add a cheap cut, kind of like ground chicken, and then we’re going to make like little dumplings or balls with them, and then we’re going to add that to our soup as well. The ground chicken will cook quite quickly in this format.
We’re going to add a bit more bagoong depending on how savory and salty you want it, as well as some calamansi juice just to bring up the flavor profile. Our soup’s pretty much ready. Our camote leaves go in for about 2-3 minutes. This dish is a Sarciadong Galunggong
Or a hybrid of it. Usually a very popular Filipino dish where you have some fish cooked with some eggs and some tomatoes. We’re going to change it up a little bit by adding some tomato paste just to give us a bit more umami flavor since our native tomatoes
Are looking quite green and orange today. So we’re going to chop up all our ingredients first. While that’s happening, my pan’s getting hot and we’re going to fry off the fish. Crack your eggs. Take your galunggong out. Now, we’re going to use the same pan
With some oil and we’re going to fry off some tomato paste just to give it some extra flavor. Go in with your garlic and your onions, as well as your tomatoes. Once everything is beautiful and caramelized, a little bit of water. Fish goes back in.
Once that’s done, we’re going to go ahead and add in our egg. Let that slowly bubble away. Let’s give this a try. So the reason why I added these chicken-like little dumplings in there is just so you can up your protein game. Now, with the corn starch, it stays nice and bouncy.
Then, here with your sweet potatoes which is something you don’t necessarily see in these kinds of soups. It also just adds a nice carbohydrate count. The taste, slight bagoong flavor, nice calamansi bite. Just really clean and comforting. Now, let’s try my version of a Sarciadong.
So, usually you can have kind of like soupier versions of this, I like mine kind of like dryish so it kind of resembles like a Shakshuka. Eggs are beautiful. Let’s have some of that galunggong. You could also do this with tinapa. You could also do this with tilapia.
Any leftover fish you might have at home. And this, I have to admit, would be way better with rice. They’re super complementary. Ginataan is one of my favorite ways of cooking anything. So today, I’m going to show you how to do a Ginataang Kalabasa, but we’re going
To add some protein to it by using some bangus as well. Garlic, onions. Okay. Let’s sear this off with some oil. Squash. Give that a little bit of color, then we’re going to add in some vinegar. A bit of water. Coconut milk. Then, we’re going to take your bangus.
We’re just going to use the tail here. A bit of fish sauce to start, and we’ll add a little bit more later. Let’s try the beautiful squash first. Squash, especially when I’m looking for fat-loss, is one of my favorite vegetables to eat because it’s just so filling.
I put some chili oil in there for some color, but also just to make it really look nice. It’s such a good dish. I’m going to call this kind of like a warm salad because we’re going to be making that fresh lumpia without the actual fresh lumpia wrapper.
It’s more like a stir-fry of all the vegetables that you’d usually see in that dish paired with some tofu, and then with a similar sauce. Get some oil nice and hot in our wok. Then, we’re going to cut up our tofu, and then back over into our oil.
Next, we chop up some sweet potatoes, some carrots, and some onions with some garlic. And we’re just going to cook that until tender. We’re going to add some toge or some bean sprouts. Time for our sauce. A very small tablespoon of brown sugar, cornstarch slurry,
As well as some soy sauce, and some peanut butter. Sauce-wise, it kind of reminds me of an Indonesian Gado-Gado salad ’cause it’s full of nutrition, full of vegetables. I love this one. I really hope you enjoyed those recipes. The idea here is to showcase how much we can do
With what we can find in the market for a budget that’s not too crazy or too expensive. Good, healthy food. Doesn’t have to be extremely tasty, extremely fatty, extremely delicious. When we start looking at these extremes or when you start thinking about kind of like these cravings,
That’s when your food tends to start getting quite unhealthy. If you’re trying to be conscious about what you’re eating, be really conscious and aware of it by discriminating the ingredients that you’re putting in and making sure you know exactly what ingredients are coming in,
And ideally, in the amounts of their coming in ’cause that will help guide you moving forward. And remember, that health shouldn’t just be a priority in January, but it should be for the rest of your life.