Receta Sinanglay

Sinanglay is a Filipino dish made up of green leafy vegetable wrapped fish cooked in coconut milk and chillies. Usually it is prepared with tilapia while the leaf used is a taro or a large pechay. A dish that originated in Bicol and a staple in our house when I was growing up.

My grandmother loves cooking anything with coconut and chillies, I guess that holds true to most Bicolanos, I can still remember she buys the fresh ingredient day to day without using any processed food, truly in traditional style. When she makes this or any dish with coconut milk on it she uses fresh coconuts and she always ask me to grate it for her using a device called “kabayo”, a wooden thing where you sit on with a metal grater on the end. I also still…