Last Updated on July 16, 2019 by Ed Joven
How to cook Sinigang na Baboy (Pork Sinigang)
Have you eaten Sinigang na Baboy Recipe or Pork Sinigang? Well, if you haven’t – I might tell you that you missed one of the best Filipino dishes. Sinigang na Baboy is a sour soup native to the Philippines.
There are several ingredients that you can use as a souring agent. The most common souring-ingredient is tamarind fruit or Sampaloc. Others also use these fruits such as guava, tomato, green mango, pineapple, wild mangosteen (Santol) to make the sinigang taste sour.
This particular soup dish uses pork as the main ingredient, that’s why we call it Sinigang na Baboy.
Just follow these directions, and I assure you, it will be an excellent taste experience for you!
Sinigang na Baboy (Pork Sinigang) Ingredients and Cooking Procedure: |
Sinigang na Baboy Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 kilo Pork into small chunk cubes you can now buy Pork Sinigang cut in Supermarkets
- 2 medium size onion quartered
- 2 medium size tomato quartered
- 1 radish sliced diagonally
- 4 gabi taro root, cubed
- 2 medium size eggplant sliced diagonally
- 1 bundle sitaw cut into 2 inches length
- 1 bundle kangkong leaves
- 2 tbsp Sampaloc / Tamarind Sinigang mix
- 3 Siling haba
- Salt or Patis
Instructions
- Wash the pork cubes thoroughly. Put in a large pot, cover with enough water then let it stay there for 5 to 10 minutes, this process will lessen the scum that rises to the surface when you boil the meat. Now throw the reddish water after minutes.
- Add water again enough to cover the meat and bring to a boil, and simmer for 1 to 1 1/2 hours or until pork meat are tender. Take out all scum that rises to the surface.
- When adding more water, make sure you add boiling water not just tap water, adding tap water will cause the meat shrink back.
- When the meat is already tender add gabi (taro root), and simmer for 8-10 minutes or until gabi are tender and start to disintegrate.
- Add onion, tomato and sinigang mix and simmer for 3-5 minutes.
- Season with salt or patis (fish sauce). Add in eggplant, sitaw, and radish, cook for 3-5 minutes.
- Then add kangkong leaves and sili haba.
- Cook for another 2 minutes or until vegetables are cooked. Serve hot.
Video
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Nutrition
Sinigang na Baboy Recipe (Pork Sinigang) is one of the most favorite dishes that Filipino’s love. It’s the best tasting soup in the Philippines.
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Loved the recipe and im going to make it some day! 🙂
This looks so good I am off to the market to buy the ingredients i need.
This recipe looks yummy, I’ll be making this for the family tonight!
oh my god! This looks so yummy 🙂 I am a fan of your recipes now 🙂 Thanks for sharing and keep them coming 🙂
I cannot use the pork because I don’t eat meat, but this still sounds like an awesome recipe without it! Gonna give it a try..