Filipino Salad

"Filipino salad utilizes unusual ingredients. Home gardeners who grow their own peas, squash, chayote, swamp cabbage, marunguray, katuday, fern shoots, and sweet potato leaves make use of more than one part of the plant."
 
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Ready In:
20mins
Ingredients:
6
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Blanch one pound of pea shoots in boiling water for about a minute, then drain and plunge shoots into ice bath; drain. Squash, chayote, fern shoots, watercress, swamp cabbage, spinach, marunguray, katuday, or sweet potato leaves(only the edible kind), can be substituted.
  • Cut shoots into 1 inch pieces and place them in a large serving bowl. Add the remaining ingredients and toss to combine.
  • Calamandin limes (bartender limes) are traditionally squeezed over the salad at the end.

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<p>I was lucky to be born in Hawaii and I work as an ICU nurse in Honolulu. I love gardening and I have the sagging bookshelf full of books to prove it. I also love to bake, but I'm not really a good cook unless I have a recipe. I also have over 200 cookbooks and the cabinet is full!</p>
 
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