Sinigang
Anna MüllerFilipino sour soup with pork and vegetables
Ingredients
- 2 pcs pork belly
- 1 pcs tamarind
- 1 pcs water spinach
- 8 pcs string bean
- 2 pcs chinese eggplant
- 1 pcs daikon radish
- 8 pcs okra
- 2 pcs tomato
- 2 pcs long green pepper
- 1 pcs onion
- 2 pcs water
- 1 fish sauce
Instructions
- 1
Boil the young tamarind in 2 quarts of water for 40 minutes. Filter the tamarind broth using a kitchen sieve or a strainer. Squeeze the tamarind afterwards to extract its remaining juices.
- 2
Pour the tamarind broth into a cooking pot. Let it boil and then add the onion, pork belly, and half the amount of the tomatoes.
- 3
Skim-off the floating scums, pour 1 tablespoon fish sauce, cover and continue to simmer for 1 hour.
- 4
Add daikon radish and eggplants. Cook for 5 minutes.
- 5
Add the long green pepper, string beans, remaining tomatoes, and okra. Cook for 3 minutes.
- 6
Add the chopped water spinach stalks and season with fish sauce and ground black pepper. Cook for 2 minutes.
- 7
Put the water spinach leaves. Cover and turn the heat off. Let the residual heat cook the leaves for 3 minutes before serving.
- 8
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