Showing posts with label bitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bitter. Show all posts

December 28, 2010

paria


paria - /pa-ri-yĆ”/ (Maranao vegetable) [n.] a green tomatillo-shaped variety of bitter gourd. 

Other local name:
  • also spelled as pariya in Maranao

Because of its shape, it is often mistaken for a tomato.


This could be the shortest, smallest kind of ampalaya (bitter gourd) in the world. Yet, it tastes much bitter than the usual long variety of ampalaya we can find in the grocery and public markets or even that of Ilocano small-sized ampalaya.


It is cooked basically the same way as when cooking the long variety of ampalaya we regularly saw in Visayas and Luzon.


Paria is grown and cultivated in the farms of Marawi City and nearby towns in Lanao del Sur and Maguindanao provinces.

A Maranao vegetable vendor readies packs of paria in his stall nearby the Golden Mosque in Quiapo, Manila. He got his supply directly from Marawi City in Lanao del sur.



Related posts:

Rellenong ampalaya




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