Mais at Patola, Sweet Corn and Luffa Vegetable Soup

Mais at Patola, Sweet Corn and Luffa Vegetable Soup. Corn is a delicious viand, usually made as soup dish, assortment of vegetables can be cooked with grated corn kernels for a very filling vegetable soup dish that will go with steaming hot rice. I already have posted vegetable soup dish, should you are looking for other cooking method just click on the link below to see the recipes.

Suam na Mais, Pinoy Corn Soup
Ginulay na Mais, Gulay na Mais

Today I used patola and some eggplant in combination of grated sweet corn. The combination of patola and sweet corn is not new, some provinces in the Tagalog Region regularly cook young corn with patola or any other available for that matter. They are sometime called suam na mais or ginulay na mais.

Cooking is fairly simple, here is the recipe of my Mais at Patola, Sweet Corn and Luffa Vegetable Soup.

Ingredients:

4 young corn in a cob
2 medium size patola, peeled, cut crosswise
2 medium size eggplant, sliced into strips
1/4 kilo pre-boiled pork, cut into strips
1 cup small shrimp, shelled
2-3 long green chili
1/4 head garlic, chopped
1 small size onion, chopped
1 medium size tomato, chopped
1/4 cup fish sauce
salt to taste
cooking oil

Cooking procedure:

Using a knife cut of the corn kernels of the cob, keep aside, discard cobs. In a sauce pan suttee garlic, onion and tomato until lump. Add in the pork and shrimp, stir cook for a minute. Add in fish sauce and stir cook for another minute. Add 3 to 4 cups of water bring to a boil and simmer for 1 to 2 minutes. Add in the corn and continue to simmer for 25 to 30 minutes, add more water as necessary. Add in the vegetables and simmer for 3 to 5 minutes, correct saltines if required. Now add in the green chili and cook for another half a minute. Serve with steaming hot rice.