Unripe Jackfruit in Coconut Cream and Pulled Smoked Milk Fish
Ginataang Langka na may Tinapang Bangus 💜
Challenge accepted! We were asked to prepare any Filipino vegetable dish with either tinapa flakes (smoked fish) or spicy tuyo flakes (dried fish). After some deliberation, and because we haven’t cooked it for months, we decided to go with langka (jackfruit)!
We’ve always strived to cook food as close to its whole form as possible. This is why we’ve opted to prepare this dish with a whole tinapang bangus that we’d pulled by hand, instead of buying the ubiquitous bottled variant. You never know what they put inside those bottles, and how they’ve handled it before being displayed on the grocery shelves. Also, nothing beats freshly grated and extracted kakatang gata (coconut cream), and freshly sliced unripe langka!
And the result….doesn’t look as appetizing as it really is. Trust us – it tastes waaaaaay better than it looks in this picture!
Special thanks to @theonlyminetzki for her request! Want to see your dish request cooked and featured here? DM us and we will see what we can do!
Ingredients
- 1 kilo langka (Jackfruit), unripe and shredded
- 4 cups kakang gata (coconut cream), freshly extracted and NOT from can 🙂
- 1/4 kilo lead ground pork
- 1/4 cup ginger, sliced to rounds and pounded
- 1/4 cup onion, minced
- 2 tablespoon garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoon patis (fish sauce)
- 2 tablespoon cooking oil
- 1 tablespoon siling labuyo (red chili), save some for garnish
- Salt and pepper to taste
Procedure
Saute onion and garlic. Add ginger until brown and translucent. Add ground lean pork; cook until golden brown.
Add langka (jackfruit) and mix well. Simmer for 5-10 minutes until the langka becomes soft and translucent.
Add kakang gata (coconut cream), mix well and simmer or 5-10 minutes. By this time you should see a thin film of oil on the surface.
Season with salt, pepper, patis (fish sauce) to taste. Add siling labuyo (red chili) and tinapang bangus. Mix well. Simmer for 3-4 minutes.
Serve with tinapa flakes on top! Sprinkle with siling labuyo (red chili).
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