Sinigang Recipe: Sinampalukang Manok
Sinigang Recipe: Sinampalukang Manok
Sinigang Recipe: Sinampalukang Manok
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Sinigang Recipe
Vanjo Merano
6-7 minutes
The quality of this dish depends on the souring agent. This is the
ingredient that makes the soup sour. The most common and widely
used is unripe tamarind. It is known as sampaloc in the Philippines.
Other fruits such as guava, tomato, bilimbi or kamias, green
mango, pineapple, and wild mangosteen or santol can be used to
make the sinigang taste sour.
I grew-up eating pork sinigang at least once a week with a saucer
of fish sauce and crushed siling labuyo on the side as my dipping
sauce. During rainy days, I enjoy my sinigang meal with rice and a
few pieces of fried tuyo. These are small fish that were salted and
dried under the sun. It is a good combination as far as I am
concerned.
The souring agent for this recipe is a tamarind soup base mix,
which is more popularly known as sinigang mix. This is a quicker
alternative to fresh tamarind and it will save you time. Add the mix
once meat is tender. Add some long green chili, if desired. This will
make your soup spicy good. Add the rest of the vegetables towards
the last few minutes. Make sure to add the spinach last.
This is best served with a condiment composed of fish sauce and
lots of hot chili pepper.
Sinigang Alternative Ingredients
This sinigang version makes use of pork belly. Any cuts of pork can
be used to make it. Beef and fish can also be utilized.
I am using spinach in this recipe. It is actually an alternative
ingredient to kangkong (water spinach), which is the most common
type of leafy green vegetable used when cooking sinigang.
Sinigang mix is a powdered product that helps bring-in that good
sour taste to sinigang. Old school methods requires boiling either
fresh young tamarind or bilimbi for a long time until the flavors are
extracted. It is your choice. It is a no-brainer, so I chose flavor and
convenience.
Make sure to cook the pork until very tender. I really mean it. You
don’t want to challenge yourself by chewing the meat with all your
might while the nice hot broth slowly cools down. Otherwise, enjoy
the broth first before working on the meat.
Onion and tomato brings-in flavor to the broth. Cook it during the
initial steps. Some people like their tomato intact. If you are one of
these people, I suggest to cook half of the tomato initially and add
the remaining once the dish is almost done.
You can still make sinigang even without all the vegetable in the list.
All you need is pork, green leafy veggies, and the souring agent. Of
course, water is essential for this recipe.
Busy people can use a slow cooker to cook sinigang. Make sure to
add the spinach or kangkong only when you are about to eat. It is
best to have these fresh.
Try this Filipino Pork Sinigang Recipe. Let me know what you think.
We can share ideas and let our opinions be heard by posting a
comment.
Pork soup in sour broth with okra, kangkong, eggplant, and string
beans. This dish is best during the cold weather.
Course Main Course
Cuisine Filipino
Keyword filipino sinigang, pork, pork sinigang, pork soup,
sinigang, sinigang na baboy
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings 6 people
Calories 892kcal
2 lbs pork belly or buto-buto
1 bunch spinach or kang-kong
3 tablespoons fish sauce
12 pieces string beans sitaw, cut in 2 inch length
2 pieces tomato quartered
3 pieces chili or banana pepper
1 tablespoons cooking oil
2 quarts water
1 piece onion sliced
2 pieces taro gabi, quartered
1 pack sinigang mix good for 2 liters water
Heat the pot and put-in the cooking oil
Sauté the onion until its layers separate from each other
Add the pork belly and cook until outer part turns light brown
Put-in the fish sauce and mix with the ingredients
Pour the water and bring to a boil
Add the taro and tomatoes then simmer for 40 minutes or until pork
is tender
Put-in the sinigang mix and chili
Add the string beans (and other vegetables if there are any) and
simmer for 5 to 8 minutes
Put-in the spinach, turn off the heat, and cover the pot. Let the
spinach cook using the remaining heat in the pot.
Serve hot. Share and enjoy!
Serving: 6g | Calories: 892kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Protein: 20g |
Fat: 83g | Saturated Fat: 29g | Cholesterol: 108mg | Sodium:
1067mg | Potassium: 1070mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A:
6710IU | Vitamin C: 42.8mg | Calcium: 157mg | Iron: 4.5mg