Рецепт Ginataang Tulingan

Ginataang Tulingan is a Filipino curry dish of “Tulingan” or Skipjack Tuna cooked with vegetables like eggplants, bok choy and moringa leaves in a rich creamy sauce infused with a “siling labuyo” or wild chili. It’s a dish common in the province of Bicol where three of its main ingredients are abundant, the tuna and coconut.

It’s a good dish and I grew up with this as my mother or my grandmother regularly cooks this for weekend lunch. I still remember they sometimes used a different fish because in Manila tuna is quite expensive but in Bicol it’s a different story. Seafood there was cheap if you can’t get them for free, which brings back to my childhood memory of the place.

I still remember when I was 7 years old, I visited…