PATPATONG

One of the most delicious but simple recipe that Mom prepares is “patpatong.” Patpatong is the Kalinga term for siling mahaba, long chili.

Siling mahaba (Long Chili) is usually a bright green in color but gets yellow with age. Likely a variety of Capsicum annum longum, it packs about the same hotness as jalapeno.

Siling mahaba is commonly used in preparing sisig, bicol express, pork dinuguan, ginataang  laing, etc. 

For most Ykalingas, patpatong is used in cooking simple dishes such as dinengdeng or inabraw. But what we love most is when Mom sautes it with bagoong.