Last Updated on August 30, 2024 by Ed Joven

How to cook Seafood Sinigang

Seafood Sinigang Recipe is one of the popular soup in the Philippines.   Filipino Sinigang soup is a very versatile dish, Filipino's have different versions of Sinigang deriving from the meat used such as  beef, pork, chicken, fish and shrimp.  You can add a variety of vegetables like sigarilyas(winged beans), bataw, eggplant, sitaw (string beans) and the green, leafy vegetable could be kangkong (swamp cabbage), cabbage or talbos ng kamote.

Here are the different souring agent that you can use for your Sinigang dish, tamarind, kamias, green mango, tamarind leaves, batuan or calamansi.  These days, powdered mixes and bouillon cubes come in some of these flavors and may be used instead for convenience.

Seafood Sinigang soup is very satisfying and an ideal meal for lunch and dinner.

This Filipino Seafood Sinigang Recipe version is a combination Prawn and Tanigue using tamarind broth as the souring agent. Give it a try and you will surely love it.

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Seafood Sinigang Recipe

Ed Joven

Seafood Sinigang is a delicious sour Filipino soup, cooking time is less compared when you cook the meat version.

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 35 minutes mins

Total Time 50 minutes mins

Course Seafood

Cuisine Filipino

Servings 3 people

Calories 460 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• ½ kilo sliced Tanigue
• ¼ kilo whole prawns leave un-peeled
• 2 medium size onion quartered
• 2 medium size tomato quartered
• 1 Labanos daikon, sliced diagonally
• 2 gabi taro root, cubed
• 1 stalk lemon grass tie into knot
• 2 medium size eggplant sliced diagonally
• 1 bundle sitaw string beans, cut into 2 inches length
• 1 bundle kangkong river spinach leaves
• 1 sachet Tamarind Sinigang mix
• 3 Siling haba red chilli
• Salt or Patis fish sauce

Instructions

 

• Place the water into an eight liter pot and take the water to boil. Add the onions, tomatoes, ginger and lemon grass and cook simmer for about 12 minutes or until the tomatoes start to break down.
• Using a fork, squash the tomatoes and onions against the side of the pot. Take out the lemon grass.
• Add chillies, labanos, okra, sitaw and eggplant and simmer for ten minutes.
• Add the tamarind mix and simmer for another five minutes.
• Add the fish, and prawns and season with the fish sauce.
• Check that the fish is ready by pressing against it with a spoon. If it feels slightly firm and the flesh is white almost all the way through (check the inside by opening it up with the spoon) then the fish is almost cooked.
• Over cooking it will start to break up the fish.
• Lastly before serving, add the kang kong leaves, turn the heat off and put a lid on the pot. Allow to sit for at least five minutes to cook the greens.
• Serve with hot rice.

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Nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Seafood Sinigang Recipe

Amount Per Serving (1 bowl)

Calories 460 Calories from Fat 315

% Daily Value*

Fat 35g54%

Saturated Fat 12g75%

Cholesterol 120mg40%

Sodium 2600mg113%

Potassium 950mg27%

Carbohydrates 15g5%

Fiber 5g21%

Sugar 7g8%

Protein 38g76%

Vitamin A 2750IU55%

Vitamin C 62.7mg76%

Calcium 170mg17%

Iron 3.2mg18%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Keyword Seafood Recipe, Sinigang Recipe

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Craving for something sour with a pinch of salty?  We recommend you try our version of Seafood Sinigang Recipe.

Also try these Sinigang Recipe variations:

• Shrimp Sinigang with Cabbage Recipe
• Sinigang na Malasugi Recipe
• Pork Sinigang Recipe
• Sinigang na Hipon Recipe
• Sinampalukang Manok Recipe
• Sinigang na Bangus at Talbos ng Kamote Recipe
• Beef Sinigang Recipe