Ginataang Kalabasa

Name: Ginataang Kalabasa
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Filipino
Ingredients: 800 g Calabaza or kabocha squash, peeled and cut into 4 cm chunks; 200 g Long beans, cut into 5 cm lengths; 250 g Raw prawns, peeled; 400 ml Coconut milk; 150 ml Coconut cream, thick; 1 Onion, sliced; 5 Garlic cloves, chopped; 3 cm Ginger, julienned; 2 tbsp Fish sauce; 2 Long green chillies; 1/2 tsp Black pepper

Squash and long beans simmered in coconut milk with shrimp until the squash half-collapses and thickens its own sauce — a whole meal made from one vegetable and a tin.

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Resep oleh Filipino home kitchens · 🏺 Tradisional · Cooking that turns on three levers — vinegar, salt from fish or shrimp, and fat — and a table where sour, salty and rich are balanced by the eater, not the cook.

Philippines · squash in coconut milk — An ownerless traditional dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms ginataang kalabasa, also known as kalabasa sa gata, as a Filipino vegetable stew made from calabaza in coconut milk and spices, commonly including shrimp. The bare-simmer rule, the crush-a-quarter trick and the timings are this book's own.

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Soften the onion, garlic and ginger in a dry heavy pot with 3 tbsp of the coconut cream over medium heat, 4 minutes.
💡 Coconut cream instead of oil. It splits under heat and fries in its own fat, which is what gives ginataan its scent.
Pour in the coconut milk and bring it to a bare simmer — never a rolling boil.
💡 Hard boiling splits coconut milk into oil and grainy curds. Small bubbles at the edge, and stir it now and then.
Add the squash and simmer, uncovered, 15 minutes until a knife meets almost no resistance.
Press about a quarter of the squash against the side of the pot to break it down and thicken the sauce.
Add the beans and chillies, cook 5 minutes, then the prawns and the remaining coconut cream and cook 3 minutes more.
Season with fish sauce and pepper and serve with rice.

💡 Tips

Ginataan is a method, not a dish — anything cooked in coconut milk is ginataang something. This one is the vegetable version and the cheapest of the family.
Leave out the prawns and swap the fish sauce for salt and it is vegan — and it still works, because the squash was always doing the heavy lifting.