Kinilnat

Kinilnat

Kinilnat made of katuday flowers and tomatoes
Alternative names	Ensalada
Type	Salad
Course	Side dish
Place of origin	Philippines
Region or state	Ilocos region
Serving temperature	Cold
Main ingredients	Regional vegetables (shoots, blossoms, unripe fruits)

Kinilnat, or ensalada, is an Ilocano salad. Unlike some Western salads, kinilnat accompanies the main course as a side dish.

The leaves, shoots, blossoms, immature fruits or other parts of the vegetables are blanched, drained and dressed with bugguong munamun (anchovy paste) or patis (fish sauce), and sometimes souring agents like kalamansi, kamatis (tomatoes), or suka (vinegar).^[1] Additionally, it can be seasoned with freshly ground laya (ginger) or sili (chilis). Common vegetables include:^[2][3][4]

• kamotig, sweet potato leaves and shoots
• parya, bittermelon unripe fruits and leaves
• otong, string bean shoots and young pods
• karabasa, calabaza shoots and blossoms
• sayote, chayote shoots
• kalunay, amaranth leaves
• marunggay, moringa leaves and blossoms
• repolyo, cabbage leaves
• katuday, West-Indian pea blossoms
• pallang, winged beans pods
• parda, hyacinth bean pods
• sabunganay, banana blossoms
• pako, fern shoots^[5]

See also

• Binagoongan
• Dinengdeng
• Kilawin
• List of salads
• Food portal

References

1. "Kinilnat | Traditional Salad From Ilocos | TasteAtlas". www.tasteatlas.com. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
2. Pinkabet (website). "Alukon leaves stew"
3. Dumilag, Richard V. (January 2, 2018). "Unmasking a cryptic ethnotaxon: a case study on the identity of Dermonema virens (Nemaliales, Rhodophyta) in the Philippines". Webbia. 73 (1): 89–96. Bibcode:2018Webbi..73...89D. doi:10.1080/00837792.2018.1437591. ISSN 0083-7792. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
4. Cacatian, Shella B.; Tabian, John Lester T. (May 5, 2023). "Floristic composition and diversity of indigenous wild food resources in northwestern Cagayan, Philippines". Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity. 24 (4). doi:10.13057/biodiv/d240446. ISSN 2085-4722.
5. Sarazawa, Katrina S; Sanidad, Remely A (March 2022). "Exploring the Food and Cultural Significance of Native Chicken in Ilocos Sur" (PDF). Asia Pacific Journal of Management and Sustainable Development. 10 (1): 10-16. Retrieved September 27, 2023.