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.
Seafood Sinigang Ingredients and Cooking Procedure: |
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Seafood Sinigang Recipe
Seafood Sinigang is a delicious sour Filipino soup, cooking time is less compared when you cook the meat version.
Ingredients
- ยฝ kilo sliced Tanigue
- ยผ 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.
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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
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jenirose says
masarap po sya..my kids love the delicious taste... thank you!
Alika jones says
Mahalo! thank you for this recipe, my visiting Filipino friends in Hawaii loved it so much they thought I always cook this dish.
marcia knoll says
tried this recipe recently and my family is requesting for more they really loved it. thank you for your awesome recipes... more power!
Nenita says
Thanks for all these yummy recipes. They are all my favorites as a Filipino!!!!!