How Do You Make Vegetarian Pancit?
Pancit is the Filipino version of Chinese Chow Mein. It is one of the most versatile and popular dishes of Filipino cuisine, and can be made with many different ingredients from pork to shrimp. I came up with this vegetarian version based on a recipe for Pancit Guisado that I found in Reynaldo Alejandro’s “The Philippine Cookbook”. For you meat lovers out there, I have included optional steps to include Chinese dried pork sausage. Enjoy! After peeling onion, cut in half. Put aside one half and cut other half in quarters. Combine quartered onion, 5 cups of water, bay leaves, and peppercorns in large pot. Bring to a boil and keep on high heat until water turns into a broth. Turn off heat and set aside. The original recipe states to blanch rice stick noodles. You can do that by slightly boiling the noodles in water until they are “al dente” or slightly undercooked (about 3-4 minutes). I usually put the noodles in a colander in the sink and then pour boiling water over them so that they ar
