Greetings, fellow foodies!

It's been a while since I last posted in this community because it's kinda been hectic in real life. When I was able to finish my chores earlier, I had the idea of posting what I was going to make for lunch today.

This meal is quite easy to make, and since it largely consists of meat and vegetables, or is chayote a fruit? Let's all find out. This recipe is healthy, too. The ingredients are very easy to find on the market.

Chayote, commonly known in the Philippines as sayote, is a type of squash and belongs to the guord family. I searched it on Wikipedia, just to make sure of what I was saying here, but damn, I was surprised when I found out it's a fruit, not a vegetable! All my life, I thought it was a vegetable! Vegetable or not, it's still packed with vitamins, minerals, and fiber, so it's still very healthy to eat.
So let's get cooking!

Sautéed Chayote (Ginisang Sayote) Recipe

Ingredients

• 3 pieces medium chayote, peeled, deseeded, and sliced thinly
• 2 medium-ripe tomatoes, sliced
• 1 small onion, diced
• 5 cloves of garlic, minced
• 1/4 kg pork cut in cubes
• cooking oil
• 2 tablespoons of fish sauce or patis
• salt
• ground black pepper

Instructions

1. Heat the cooking oil in a pan.
2. Sauté the garlic, onion, and tomato.
3. Add the pork meat and season it with fish sauce and ground pepper, cover and cook for 8 minutes.
4. Add the chayote, stir, and cover. Cook for 8 minutes more.
5. Add salt to taste, final stir, and done cooking.
6. Serve with steamed rice. Enjoy!

If you prefer the chayote to have a crisper texture, you can cook it for less than 8 minutes; cook longer if you want it to be more soft.

This recipe is so easy to make; the preparation and cooking took less than 30 minutes. The chayote is very versatile too; you can add it to different dishes like tinola as a substitute for the green papaya; it can also be added to chop suey; or you can just simply sauté it with either canned sardines or corned beef. That's why I always have a supply of sayote in the fridge.

Have you tried this recipe, or do you have other recipes with chayote?

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All photos are my own, unless stated otherwise.
The lead image was edited using Canva.