Visayan Law-uy Recipe — a humble and comforting vegetable soup made with squash, okra, eggplant, and fried fish simmered in rice wash. It is a nourishing, no-fuss Filipino dish that celebrates the heart of home cooking in the Visayas. Ingredients Set A – Fried Fish Base Oil, for frying 3 pcs matangbaka Salt, to season Set B – Vegetable Soup Base 8 cups rice wash (hugas-bigas) 1 cup fresh tomatoes, chopped ¼ cup onion, sliced 1 stalk lemongrass, tied into a knot 2 cups squash, sliced 1 cup sayote

So. Much. Flavour. In every strand. You cook the noodles directly in the sauce in my version of Filipino Pancit Bihon and that means all the salty, porky, chickeny flavours go soak right into the noodles. | Marion Grasby

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