Fruits
Filipino Dish
What's your Ulam?
Dessert
Vegetables that are actually fruit
100

This is something that grows on a tree
It is a fruit that is green or red
It’s said gravity was discovered
When one of these fell on Newton’s head

Apple

100


Ingredients

  • 2 lbs beef shank
  • ½ pc small cabbage whole leaf individually detached
  • 1 small bundle Pechay
  • 3 pcs Corn each cut into 3 parts
  • 2 tbsp Whole pepper corn
  • 1/2 cup Green onions
  • 1 medium sized onion
  • 34 ounces water
  • 2 tbsp fish sauce optional

Bulalo

100

This Filipino dish is known as the unofficial national dish of the Philippines. Although the Spanish version is popular for marination, Filipinos emphasize the cooking process of garlic, vinegar, bay leaves, black peppercorn, and soy sauce.

Adobo

100

This hunk of purple yam goodness can be found in many Filipino treats such as cakes, ice cream, and halo-halo.

Ube

100

I'm red and have seeds, and I am also round. Sliced up in salads, is where I can be found.

Tomato

200

I am a fruit that’s curved
Although I am not round
Don’t slip up on my skin
If it’s dropped on the ground

Banana

200

Ingredients:

  • 1/4 cup canola oil
  • 2 large potatoes, peeled and cut into 2-inch cubes
  • 2 large carrots, peeled and cut into 2-inch cubes
  • 1 onion, peeled and chopped
  • 4 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
  • 2 pounds bottom round roast, cut into 2-inch cubes
  • 2 cups tomato sauce
  • 2 tablespoons tomato paste
  • 2 cups water
  • 10 Thai chili peppers, minced
  • 1/2 cup green olives, pitted
  • 1/2 cup liver spread
  • 1/2 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
  • 1 small green bell pepper, seeded, cored and cut into cubes
  • 1 small red bell pepper, seeded, cored and cut into cubes
  • salt and pepper to taste

Caldereta

200

The presence of this dish during birthday parties is often common. As it represents the wishing of a prolonged and healthy life.

Pansit

200

A steamed rice cake derived from Indian culture which is usually topped with coconut, butter, or cheese.

Puto

200

This is normally grown in fields, Its a grain from what I hear. It can be eaten piece by piece, or straight from a long ear.

Corn

300

This is a type of fruit
Whose outside’s brown and hairy
It’s white on the inside
And it comes from a palm tree

Coconut

300

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ lbs. Chicken cut into serving pieces
  • 2 piece potato cubed
  • 1 piece carrot sliced
  • 8 oz. tomato sauce
  • 3 pieces hotdog sliced
  • ½ cup green peas
  • 3 pieces bay leaves
  • 1 piece red onion chopped
  • 2 teaspoons garlic minced
  • 3 cups chicken broth
  • ½ teaspoon sugar
  • 3 tablespoons cooking oil
  • Salt and ground black pepper to taste

Afritada

300

Anthony Bourdain, an American celebrity chef, author, and travel documentarian, claims that Cebu, Philippines is the best place to get this dish.



Lechon

300

A chocolate porridge brought to the Philippines by the Spanish from Mexico. Throughout the years Filipinos were able to make it their own by the addition of rice. *HINT! --Ate Cora says it tastes better with at LEAST a can of condensed milk.

Champorado

300

The bigger the seed is the more it feeds, this orange squash, has lots of seeds.

Pumpkin

400

I can be red or green
I get grown on a vine
I’m dried to make raisins
Or squeezed to help make wine

Grapes

400

Ingredients

  • 3 cloves garlic crushed
  • 1 piece large onion sliced
  • 2 lbs beef chuck cubed
  • 8 ounces tomato sauce
  • 1 cup water
  • 3 tbsp cooking oil
  • 1 slice lemon with rind
  • 1 piece large potato cubed
  • 1/4 cup soy sauce
  • 1/2 tsp. ground black pepper
  • 2 pieces bay leaves laurel
  • salt to taste

Mechado

400

This Filipino soup dish is known for its sour (maasim) and savory taste. It consists of pork or fish and mostly green/leafy vegetables.

Sinigang

400

It is a Filipino cold dessert which includes crushed ice, evaporated milk, and other ingredients such as ube, sweetened beans, banana, jackfruit, etc. 

It is also the opposite of "goodbye-goodbye."

Halo-Halo

400

I am very small and green. I grow on trees and I love everything.

Olive

500

I am a type of citrus fruit
Although I am not an orange
I am not a melon either
But ‘melon’ you should rearrange

Lemon

500

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 lbs beef sirloin thinly sliced
  • 5 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 4 pieces calamansi or 1-piece lemon
  • 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
  • 3 cloves garlic minced
  • 3 pieces yellow onion sliced into rings
  • 4 tablespoons cooking oil
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 pinch salt

Bistek

500

This seafood dish originates from the northern indigenous regions of the Philippines. It is a dish with mixed vegetables steamed with "Patis" or fish sauce or fermented fish or shrimp paste called "Bagoong."

Pinakbet

500

Rice cake traditionally eaten during Christmas Season cooked in clay pots lined with leaves.

Bibingka

500

I come in many colors, including red, green and yellow. Be careful, sometimes I can be a spicy fellow.

Pepper

M
e
n
u