Malunggay Combo and Carrot Juice

Ingredients:

Malunggay Combo

2 cups malunggay leaves (horse raddish)

1 cup malunggay fruits

1 cup left over fish, flaked

1 cup evaporated milk

½ cup carrot pulp, from the juice

1 teaspoon salt, iodized

1 head garlic, minced

1 piece onion, chopped

¼ cup butter

1 teaspoon ground pepper

1 teaspoon sugar

Malunggay Carrot Juice

2 cups carrot juice

½ teaspoon calamansi juice

2 ½ cups washed sugar

1 piece ice

6 cups malunggay water

Sauce

1 cup evaporated milk

½ cup all purpose flour

2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground pepper

2 teaspoon sugar

½ cup mashed camote

Procedure:

1.     Saute garlic, onion and flaked fish.
2.     Add malunggay leaves.
3.     Add evaporated milk and seasonings.
4.     Add malunggay fruits, cook for two minutes.
5.     Add malunggay leaves
6.     Put in camote cup, pour sauce on top.
7.     Serve attractively.

Sauce 

Combine all ingredients.

Malunggay Carrot Juice

1.    Boil malunggay leaves for 10 minutes.
2.     Peel and blend carrots with levelled water. Extract and set aside.
3.     Extract calamansi juice.
4.     Mix all the malunggay, carrots and calamansi extracts and add sugar.

Recipe developed by: Nieva Josefina M. Marcelino, Jonnah Laine V. Toy

                                                  Florentino Torres High School, Manila

Tips:

This is true combo, with each part using ingredients from the other. Making the juice first would be the better option, so that the carrot pulp from it will be ready for use in the main dish.

The camote cup in the recipe need not be raw. It can be steamed or boiled briefly to make it smoother and easier to eat . The fish here can be any fish, but it's better to have fish that was either grilled or fried. A very good option would be to use smoked fish or tinapa.


Malunggay fruits are interesting and fun vegetable to eat, as there is a particular method eating it. The skin of the fruit is not eaten but only  the flesh and seeds inside. Some people enjoy scraping the flesh and seeds off the fruit by sucking it in their  mouths; other use their spoons to scrape it off. Whatever the technique, the point is enjoy it!... Oh My Gulay!