Recipe: Perfect Sauteed Sitaw

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Sauteed Sitaw. Sitaw Guisado (Sauteed Yardlong Beans) The key to a flavorful sitaw guisado is to cook the chopped garlic slowly in oil to allow the bits to caramelize while, at the same time, infusing the oil with its flavor. That oil will later coat the sitaw and shrimps. In a wok stir fri dry shrimp then remove.
Ginisang sitaw at kalabasa basically translates to sauteed string beans and calabaza, a type of Indian squash typically grown in the West Indies and tropical countries like the Philippines.
Sautéed long beans with shrimps and garlic, seasoned with Mama Sita's Oyster Sauce.
Sauteed string beans or what we call as ginisang sitaw is one of the simplest Filipino dishes that you can make yet it is so tasty and filling.
You can have Sauteed Sitaw using 5 ingredients and 1 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Sauteed Sitaw
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You need 1 of tomato.
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Prepare slices of Garlic, shallot, ginger,.
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It’s of String beans.
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It’s of Oyster sauce.
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You need of Dried shrimp.
It is cheap too since you only need a few ingredients.
Needless to say, it's good for the tummy and the pocket.
The term "ginisa" simply means "sauteed", while "sitaw" is the Tagalog word for long beans.
This is a versatile dish as you can skip the meat or substitute with chicken, beef, shrimp, or even flaked fish.
Sauteed Sitaw instructions
- In a wok stir fri dry shrimp then remove. Saute garlic, shallot and ginger until aromatic. Then add tomato and shrimp. Mix well. Now, add string beans together with oyster sauce. Mix it. Add water cover and simmer. Until the string beans are cook..
To make it vegetarian, use tofu instead of meat and substitute pork bouillon cube with vegetable bouillon.
Adobong Sitaw - Asian long beans sauteed with Shiitake mushrooms and all the ingredients used in a Filipino Adobo Recipe.
These Asian long beans grow wild in the summer in my backyard garden on Long Island, New York.
Being a Filipino, I plant this vegetable because I love to cook them in different ways.
My favorite is the green beans Filipino.