kalintubo

kalintubo - /ka-lin-tú-bo/ (Maguindanaon meal) [n.] A Maguindanaon budget meal similar to pastil or paster. It is made with freshly steamed rice (i.e., steaming hot plain rice) and topped with chicken cutlets stir-fried with soy sauce, or saucy chicken liver cooked adobo-style, then wrapped in banana leaf folded into a conic shape making it look like a small volcano - open on top. 

A Maguindanaon elder demonstrating how to prepare kalintubo topped with saucy chicken liver.

Kalintubo topped with chicken cutlets stir-fried with soy sauce.

The opening on top allows the hot rice to cool off without trapping the moisture. Thus, preventing the meal from spoiling fast. It also makes it easy to tell what topping is on the kalintubo. The sight of it makes the meal attractive as well.

The opening can also be made narrow for easy handling when on the go.

You can eat the kalintubo meal either using your fingers, provided you wash your hands first, or with a spoon and fork. The banana leaf would serve enough as a dining plate, though most would prefer to serve and dine kalintubo on a plate.

Kalintubo is often taken with a hard-boiled chicken egg as siding pair to rice

Kalintubo topped with chicken cutlets stir-fried with soy sauce.

Kalintubo topped with saucy chicken liver cooked adobo-style

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kinilaw nga sasing

kinilaw nga sasing – /ki-ni-law nga sa-sing/ Cebuano, Boholano, Davaoeño [southeastern Mindanao] and Misamis occidental [northern Mindanao] and Romblomanon raw dish) [n.] peanut worm in vinegar.

• a.k.a. kinilaw nga saypo in Boholano and Surigaonon
• kinilaw na tasing in Cantilangnon (Cantilan, Surigao del sur)

This is a raw dish of cleaned sasing (peanut worm) steeped in vinegar with spices and seasonings.

The inverted sasing worms. So called "peanut worm" in English, because when the worm is inverted it resembles that of emptied peanut shell.

To prepare, the peanut worm is washed clean then each worm is inverted inside out by pushing a bamboo stick from one end and through inside the body. Once inverted, the worm is cleaned thoroughly of its muddy contents. 

The inverted worms are washed again thoroughly on seawater, drained, and then seasoned with vinegar spiced up with chopped onions, ginger, sili (chili), and salt to taste.

The complete ingredients of kinilaw nga sasing in Pagadian City, Zamboanga del sur. It uses sukang tuba (commonly sold in plastic tubes), luy-a (ginger), sibuyas pula (purple onion), siling kulikot (labuyo chili), calamansi (Philippine round lime), biyasong, and tabon-tabon fruit.  

In southern Mindanao, such as in Pagadian City and other coastal towns in Zamboanga del Sur, a tabon-tabon fruit (sc.name: Hydrophytune orbiculatum)  is used to season their kinilaw nga sasing. In this part of Mindanao, tabon-tabon trees and fruits are plenty. 

Extract of scraped tabon-tabon fruit and extracted juice of calamansi and biyasong lime make the kinilaw nga sasing more delectable

The kernel of tabon-tabon fruit is scraped off, mixed with a little amount of vinegar then squeezed and the extract is mixed in the dish. It is even made more delectable by adding calamansi juice and extracted juice of native lime called biyasong.

Adding vetsin (MSG) is optional, but not recommended.

A young Maguindanaon couple residing near the sea of Pagadian City, Zamboanga del sur prepares kinilaw nga sasing.

Sasing is an exotic delicacy and is considered an aphrodisiac by the locals. It is leathery and tough but crunchy. It has to be chewed well to savor the essence of its true flavor.

Kinilaw na sasing is highly sought as a pulutan (food served in drinking sessions) in coastal villages of Visayas and Mindanao. It is a perfect pair for tuba (coconut wine) or ginebra (gin).

Sasing (Youtube video)

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sasing

sasing – /sa-sing/ Cebuano, Boholano, Davaoeño [southeastern Mindanao] and Misamis occidental [northern Mindanao], Waray, and Romblomanon worm/seafood) [n.] peanut worm (sc.name: Sipunculus nudus).

 

a.k.a. saypo in Boholano & Cebuano

saypo in Surigaonon

tasing in Cantilangnon (Cantilan, Surigao del sur)

 

A kind of sand worm or sand burrower of the family Echiurus that burrows under sandy clayish soil of the sea shore. 

Sasing burrows in moist sandy-muddy ground along the shore and river deltas. A hole like this is a sign that peanut worm is just around under the sand. 

It is an exotic delicacy to some Pinoys. Often eaten as kinilaw nga sasing where the cylindrical body of the worm is inverted inside out and washed thoroughly. The cleaned inverted peanut worm is then dipped in spiced vinegar and munched.

Sasing has a crunchy leathery texture and has to be chewed thoroughly to savor its flavor. 

It is considered an exotic delicacy and as an aphrodisiac to some Pinoys when they visit places where sasing are found. 

The worms are washed clean then inverted inside out by pushing a bamboo stick from one end and through inside the body so as to clean its muddy contents. The inverted worms are washed again thoroughly, drained and then seasoned with spiced up vinegar to become a kinilaw nga sasing.

So called peanut worm in English because when it is inverted, the inner side of the worm would look like an emptied peanut shell.

Although sasing worms live and feed in the sandy mud shores, some Filipino Muslim (followers of Islam faith) do not consider peanut worm as unclean or filth to be among those forbidden (Haram) in Islamic laws. Nevertheless, this exotic worm should be served with caution to Muslim or any followers of Islamic faith, so as not to offend or insult them

Sasing (Youtube video)

Personal notes

I read an old news feature of GMA Network news that some folks of Inopacan, Leyte believed sasing has curative powers against tuberculosis and anemia. Inopacnons are fond of it and would love to take kinilaw nga sasing as their pulutan with their tuba (coconut wine).

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sawa

A harvest of not-so-matured sawa pods being sold in the public market of Super in Cotabato City during one of my brief stay in the city in November 2010.

 

sawa – /sá-wà/ Maguindanaon edible water plant/fruit) 1. [n.] sacred lotus (sc.name: Nelumbo nucifera, Gaertn.) \oriental lotus 2. [n.] lotus pod and its seeds \lotus seed.

Other local common names:

• beno or baino in Tagalog-Lagueño [Laguna Lake].
• pagusi in Surigaonon  [Mainit Lake] of Surigao del Norte and in Cebuano-Agusanon (Agusan del Norte).
• sukaw in Ilocano [Paoay Lake].
• kulatot in Pangasinense.
• lingaling in Ibanag (Cagayan Province).

 

A fruit of indigenous sacred lotus that grows in the ponds, marshes, swamps, and lakes of Maguindanao and adjacent towns and provinces. The fruit has seeds with nutty kernels that are eaten raw as a snack. Lotus plants are very much abundant in the Tamontaka river, Rio Grande Mindanao river, Matampay river, and the vast swampy areas of Liguasan marsh and Libungan marsh of Maguindanao and Cotabato regions in the southwestern part of mainland Mindanao. 

This lotus plant is native of Asia, particularly of Indochina (Mainland Southeast Asia) and adjacent other countries of South East Asia. Probably of  prehistoric introduction to the Philippines.

The young pod of the fruit has a thick casing resembling that of a halved cacao fruit or a cornucopia of protruding yellow-green seeds. Simply, figure it out as a showerhead.

Two elderly Maguindanaon women in Cotabato City picking bunch of not-so-matured sawa pods for their grandkids.

The ovaloid young lotus seeds need to be pulled out, its shell cracked open like a peanut and its nutty, tender white kernel is taken out and eaten raw. It tastes like that of a boiled young peanuts.

The Maguindanaons would often give this to their kids and toddlers as nourishment

Are lotus and water lily the same?

 

Let it be known, and to set it clear, that lotus and water lily are two different kinds of aquatic plants. Yes, they are not the same. The  Maguindanaon sawa is a kind of lutos and not a water lily. 

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