Monday, November 7, 2011

String Bean Pickles (Sitaw)

Easiest way to enjoy dish of string beans (sitaw) is to pickled this vegetable. Not so hard to make, just with vinegar, onions and pepper, the half-cooked string will become one's favorite. Seasons for string beans comes in the month of September, October and November. And best way to cook this, aside from dinengdeng, ginisa, or ginataan, is to pickled it. When in abundance, the price is so high that you can think just to buy meat, but when its season comes, you will think of different ways of cooking sitaw.
Utong is for Ilocanoes, sitaw for Tagalogs, string beans is favorite for every Filipino


Rural areas preferred much this dish than dinengdeng or ginisa.

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