Last Updated on March 1, 2019 by Ed Joven
How to make Sinamak
Sinamak Recipe – Filipinos love to have “sawsawan” (dipping sauce) in their grilled dish and Sinamak from the Western Visayas region is one of the most popular. You can find Sinamak in most native restaurants in the Philippines, because it is a great dip for seafood dishes. Now supermarkets sells Sinamak.
Sinamak is a spiced vinegar and very easy to prepare, the basic ingredients are siling labuyo, ginger, peppercorns and garlic, but in Western Visayas it always has langkawas or galangal. Langkawas gives your Sinamak an enticing aroma and appetizing flavor, but if you can’t find one, Ginger is good enough.
When serving Sinamak, you can mix it with soy sauce or fish sauce.
Sinamak Ingredients and Preparation Instructions: |
Sinamak Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 1/2 cups Cane vinegar best if you can have a Vinegar from Tuba or Palm Wine
- 1 cup fresh Siling Labuyo
- 3 tablespoons ginger sliced
- 3 tablespoons langkawas sliced
- 1 tablespoon Peppercorns
- 1 head garlic
- 1 long neck empty bottle cleaned
Instructions
- Clean and slice the Ginger and Langkawas
- Combine langkawas, ginger, garlic, whole peppercorns, and siling labuyo chili in a long neck bottle (any clean liquor bottle will do)
- Pour the vinegar in the bottle then tightly cover it.
- Lightly shake the bottle and store in room temperature for 2 days to allow the spices to blend with the vinegar, the longer you store it, the spicier it becomes.
- Serve as condiment with soy sauce or fish sauce for your grilled and fried dish.
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Sinamak Recipe is a spiced vinegar that has an enticing aroma and appetizing flavor.
Some Filipino dishes are more appetizing when paired with Sinamak, here are some them;
Chicharon Bulaklak
Inihaw na baboy
Pork Chicharon
Shrimp Kropek
Beef Tapa
Inihaw na Bangus
Chicken Inasal
Bagnet
Inihaw na Liempo
Fried Bangus
Crispy Fried Isaw
Lumpiang togue
Inihaw na Pusit
Lumpiang Bangus
Daing na bangus
Lumpia Shanghai
Vigan Empanada
Im always fond of making sinamak for personal consumption. The only challenged I encountered was completing the ingredients since “langkawas” is very hard to find even on the local market.
What is grilled or fried fish without sinamak? Every Negrense household has a bottle on the dining table. Thank you, Pare Ed, for sharing this recipe.
What is the ratio soy sauce to sinamak. Or pour it by taste?
depends on your taste buds some like it salty, just pour it and taste the saltiness.
I want to try it, if I can find all the ingredients!
Thanks. Great recipe and useful. Flavor like this really adds to a recipe.
Awesome thanks for the Sinamak recipe Ed! It’s hard to find that here in the US š