Dinengdeng
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Dinengdeng (also called inabraw) is a dish of the Ilocano, similar to pinakbet. It is classified as a bugguong soup based dish. Unlike pinakbet, dinengdeng contains fewer vegetables, usually leftovers, and contains more bugguong soup base.
The dish contains a few of the following popular vegetables: jute leaves, the pods and leaves of the horseradish tree, the leaves and fruits of bitter melon, the calabaza squash and blossoms, alakon blossoms, amaranth leaves, sweet potato tubers and leaves, kabatiti gourd, string beans and shoots, talinum, chayote squash and shoots, chili peppers, banana blossoms, corn, West-Indian pea blossoms, tabungaw gourd, winter melon, eggplant, okra, winged bean, parda beans, lima beans, various mushrooms like oyster mushrooms, whole taro, cassava tubers, purple yams, and wild potatoes.
It is also popular to add leftover fried fish, or other meats, to the dish.
