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Glossary- Filipino - English

If you are not very familiar with filipino words, tagalog dialect used in this recipe site, here are some filipino to english word translations that maybe helpful to you according to your interest. Most of the words are ingredients used in cooking the recipes here. Also, your suggestions are welcome and very helpful to the improvement of this site's glossary. If you like to contribute other filipino-english terms or want to correct anything pls. write to: mmontala[at]filipinovegetarianrecipe.com

Filipino (Dialect: Tagalog) English (translation or description)
Alugbati Malabar Night Shade
Atchuete or Atsuete
Annatto
Ampalaya Bitter Melon
Bawang Garlic
Bibingka Rice cake
Buko Young coconut 
Buro (or Burong ) Fermented
GabiTaro Root
GinataanCooked with coconut milk
Kalabasa Squash
Kalamansi Lime
Kamote Sweet Potato
Kamias Ginger Lily
Kamoteng Kahoy Cassava
KangKong Swamp cabbage
Labanos Radish
Lakatan A banana variety
Linga Sesame seeds
Lumpia Spring roll
Luya Ginger
Malagkit Glutinous rice
Macapuno Coconut with soft very thick meat
Mais Corn
Malunggay Horse raddish tree
Mangga Mango
Mani Peanut
Munggo Moong or Mung beans 
Mustasa Mustard
Okra Okra
Pandan Fragrant screwpine
Palayok Earthen Cooking Pot
Papaya Papaya or PawPaw
Pinipig Pounded rice flakes
Pinya Pineapple
Repolyo Cabbage
Saging Banana
Saba, Latundan, Lakatan Varieties of banana
Sampalok Tamarind
Singkamas Turnip
Sitaw String beans
Sotanghon Vermicelli (made from mung beans)
Talong Eggplant
Tokwa Tofu
Ubi or ube Purple Yam
Ubod Heart of palm

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