Comments on: Sitaw, Bataw at Patani / Yard Long, Lablab & Lima Beans

By: dettie

dettie — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:52:23 +0000

i love every single vegetable in your picture. the dried lima beans in the US are different though – they are white instead of green – not sure if they are the same variety.

By: marissewalangkaparis

marissewalangkaparis — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:46:34 +0000

My lola always added bataw to sinigang.
Patani could be included in bulanglang which is a mixture of veggies. Lola’s version had sitaw,bataw and patani with some squash flowers.She was from Cavite but I don’t know if it was a Cavitena dish.Delish because of the squash flowers. Looked like a relative of the pinakbet.

I enjoyed removing the cover of the patani. You pinch it at the inner part and peel off like a ‘plastic’ cover.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:04:15 +0000

Iya patani can have variegated colored skins as well. But these patani are the lima beans in English. Bataw are the other, unpeeled beans in the photo. They are not the same as patani.

By: Iya

Iya — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:49:21 +0000

oh so patani is lima beans in English… haha. Now i know… but isn’t patani seed/bean coating supposed to be violet with white stripes (or the other way around)… Isn’t the picture of patani here, bataw beans or it’s just the same?

By: teth

teth — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:10:39 +0000

my husband’s family love to add patani seeds with ginataang langka and balat ng kalabaw! Every time we’re in Albay (2nd district),iyan ang request niya. Sa side namin (1st district), we don’t have them, that’s why i find it difficult to eat their favorite food, “langka” na lang sa akin.

By: Fran

Fran — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:54:08 +0000

Oh, forgot to add that I think the beans are lablab.

By: Fran

Fran — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:52:22 +0000

Market Man, Although I love your whole blog, posts such as this one are my favorite kind. You may have solved the mystery of the beans growing in my friends’ backyard. They are renting a house from a Filipino gentleman and there is a bean growing there that had us all stumped. Their landlord told them it was edible, but didn’t give any other information. My husband is Ilocano, but he was not familiar with the plant. Thanks to your post, I believe the mystery is solved.

By: jules winnfield

jules winnfield — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:55:39 +0000

wil-b, there are fresh edamame beans in s&r at the fort. edamames are actually soybeans.

By: erleen

erleen — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:03:32 +0000

like catalina, we use bataw in sinigang (pork & beef) and patani in Lumpiang sariwa.

By: Micht

Micht — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:24:25 +0000

Hi Mr. MM,
In pampanga, we call patani “BULE BALUGA”, thats because most of the beans are sold by natives (BALUGA). At home we cook pork sinigang with patani, we only use tomatoes to flavor the sinigang. You just have to boil patani together with the pork and just cook as you do with normal sinigang, but this type of sinigang is not that sour but its really really good.Dont forget to add pechay…Hope you try this!!!Thanks.