There’s nothing quite like gathering around the dinner table to share a family favorite dish, but what can make it even more special is the assurance that your favorite dishes offer the best health benefits for the ones you love, here’s the healthiest pinoy dishes that you can try to make for your family.
What you can read in this article:
- Filipino recipes
- Filipino food and the nutrients you can get
- DOH top 10 healthiest Filipino dishes
The DOH recently released their ranking of the 10 healthiest dishes, check out if your favorite made the cut!
Pinakbet
Best made with bagoong isda, pork, eggplant, kalabasa, and ampalaya, this classic dish is high in vitamin A and fiber. It’s a great way to enjoy different kinds of vegetables in one delicious ulam.
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Sinigang na Isda
Quite possibly the most beloved soup dish in Filipino cuisine is the Sinigang. Its fish variation—which is great for salmon, maya-maya or bangus–made the DOH’s list of healthiest dishes. Fish is an excellent source of protein and omega-3 fatty acids; kangkong is packed with vitamins A and C.
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Tinolang Manok
Another beloved soup dish that’s not only a hit for Pinoy families, but also won the DOH’s approval is Tinolang Manok. Sayote, one of its key ingredients, is rich in folic acid, which is an essential vitamin for pregnant women. The malunggay commonly found in Tinola also functions as a milk-boosting supplement, making it perfect for lactating moms.
Tinola, a delicious “ulam” especially in the rainy season. | Image from Flickr
Malunggay
On its own, malunggay can be used to make an sumptuous soup dish. Aside from its milk-boosting properties, it’s also rich in vitamin C, iron, magnesium, and B Vitamins.
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Lumpiang Ubod
This classic wrap made of fresh vegetables is both nutritious and delicious. Typically made with carrot, ubod, spring onions, singkamas, and lettuce, this family favorite is rich in vitamin A, which promotes eye health and boosts the immune system.
Yummy yet delicious. | Image from Instagram
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Laing
This spicy and creamy coconut milk-based dish, which is made up of taro and gabi leaves, promises a healthy boost of vitamin A, C, and iron. The DOH, however, warns us to control our portions.
Laing, one of the favorite of the Bicolanos. | Image is screenshot from Youtube
Ginisang Munggo
A fusion of munggo and ampalaya, this delicious dish also boasts a lot of benefits—it’s high in folate, thiamine, magnesium, manganese, iron, and phosphorus—which are essential for the body to function in optimum health.
A food that we eat every Friday, that we don’t really know the exact reason. | Image from Pinterest
Gising Gising
Much like Laing, this dish is both creamy and spicy but it’s made with green beans instead of leafy vegetables. A serving of Gising gising assures that your family will get healthy doses of vitamins B6, C, K, zinc and fiber.
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Ginisang Sitaw
This fiber-rich dish is made up of kalabasa and sitaw. It also boasts a lot of vitamin C, making it the perfect nutritious side dish to any meal, according to the DOH.
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Ensaladang Talong
Though there are many variations to the beloved ensalada–manga, togue, lato—only the talong made the DOH’s list of the healthiest Pinoy dishes. It owes its spot on the list to its high vitamin B and manganese content as well as to its fresh tomatoes, which are packed with vitamin C and lycopene.
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