String Beans Salad

string beans salad by ilocosboy

Speaking of healthy foods, vegetable still the best.
Here is one dish for you... string beans salad.

How to prepare:
Simply half cooked the string beans with salt and favorite seasoning.
Put in the bowl and add the necessary ingredients that includes sliced onions, sliced tomatoes, ginger or pepper to make it little chili, pour a little of your choice vinegar and serve it.

Simply just like that.  Enjoy your salad string beans or as we call it sitaw or utong in Ilocano.

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