MANILA, Philippines — Alugbati is a green leafy vegetable that goes by the names Malabar spinach, Indian spinach, Chinese spinach, climbing spinach, cyclone spinach, and vine spinach in English.

For their gala dinner at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City, world leaders attending the 31st Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Summit last Nov. 12 enjoyed a great selection of ...

A croquette is a small breadcrumbed fried food roll. Try this recipe made with alugbati. In a bowl, mix mashed squash, alugbati leaves, white onion, salt, pepper. Form into balls and insert one cube ...

Clean and trim alugbati and steam for a few minutes. Mix the tomatoes, white onion, salted egg and crushed danggit. Make a vinaigrette by mixing the olive oil, calamansi and bagoong in a bowl. Add ...

Filipinos have been recorded to eat a diet rich in vegetables since the Spanish chroniclers documented our food in the 1700s. Food historian Felice Sta Maria notes that cangcung (kangkong), libato ...

Alugbati (scientific name: Basella rubra) is also known as Malabar nightshade or Ceylon spinach. It is commonly added to ginisang munggo, or vegetable stews, like the dinengdeng of the Ilocos region, ...

DAVAO CITY — What used to be a crowded street bustling with vendors, shoppers and passersby here has turned into a swampland where some alugbati (Malabar spinach) and squash are now growing after the ...