🇵🇭 How to Make Sinigang

Craving Sinigang? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Sinigang at home, in about 45 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 600g pork belly or ribs
• 1 packet sinigang tamarind mix, or 200g fresh tamarind pulp
• 1 onion, quartered
• 2 tomatoes, quartered
• 1 daikon, sliced
• 100g green beans
• 1 aubergine, sliced
• a bunch of water spinach (kangkong)
• 2 long green chillies

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Simmer the pork with the onion and tomatoes in 1.5L water for 30 min, skimming.
2. Add the tamarind and the daikon, cook 10 min.
3. Add the aubergine and beans, then the greens and chillies for the last 3 min only.
4. The broth should be aggressively, almost startlingly sour. That is the whole identity of sinigang — if it tastes balanced, add more tamarind.
5. Season with fish sauce, not salt.
6. Serve with a bowl of plain rice and a saucer of fish sauce with crushed chilli for dipping.