Laswa is a famous bland vegetable soup for Ilonggos in Negros Occidental. In other parts of the Philippines they call it law-oy or others they say it’s bulanglang. Luckily there are similar vegetables here in Thailand. So missing laswa is only a matter of overcoming my laziness in cooking.
It’s hard to list the ingredients as I only know the local names of some. Bear with me.
Ingredients:
Pumpkin Okra
Alugbati
Patola
Dried Mushroom
Water
Salt
Optional ingredients:
shrimp or hibe
tugabang (slimy leaf)
eggplant
amargoso (bitter gourd)
string beans
Procedure:
Boil dried mushroom for 5 mins. Drain then cut into strips. Bring to boil 2 cups of water. Place vegetables on intervals of 2 to 3 minutes starting from the hardest to the easiest to cook.