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alugbati sauce

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alugbati sauce - ( a-lug-bá-ti sows; Caviteño and Tagalog sauce /dip; dw Tag. alugbati [Malabar nightshade, a.k.a. Malabar spinach] + Eng. sauce ) [ n .] dip sauce with alugbati fruit extract. A sauce made with root crop, butter, broth, sugar, salt, pepper, and other seasonings, and colored bright red-purple with extract of ripe alugbati fruits.  Alugbati is Malabar nightshade in English, though in some other parts of the world, it is also known as the Malabar spinach or Ceylon spinach.  Root crop used as a base in the sauce can be of any white root crop, such as cassava, gabi (taro), white yam, patatas (potato), or white camote (sweet potato). The broth can be of chicken, beef, or pork. The  a lugbati  sauce of Tagaytay City's Siglo Modern Filipino resto .  I first saw this bright red-purple sauce as the creation of Siglo Modern Filipino restaurant in Tagaytay City two years ago. This caught me by surprise. Like you, I wondered how comes the alugbati be...

sara-sara

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sara-sara  - ( sará-sára ; Cebuano [Kidapawan City, Cotabato0] and Ilonggo  beverage; dw Ilonggo  sara  [strain]) [ n. ] roasted corn coffee . Not exactly a coffee, but a cheaper substitute to real ground coffee, or let me say it's the "poor man's coffee." It is served and taken like coffee.  Sara-sara  only tastes like coffee  but does not smell like coffee, sans the caffeine sought by coffee lovers. It has to be brewed in pots on the stove if you do not have an electric-operated coffee maker. If you do have, you need to clean it right away before the paste of sara-sara would stick stubbornly in there.  The powdered roasted corn, when mixed in hot water would become like a gruel or paste because it's heavily consists of starch. Sara-sara  does not smell like coffee, but a burnt corn. The hot beverage may taste like coffee but not exactly that of coffee and sans the caffeine sought by coffee lovers.  I found this sara-sara  sold ...