FILIPINO FOOD RECIPE: How to Cook Pork Sinigang (Ingredients & Step-by-step Guide)

Learn how to cook this Filipino dish with easy steps!

Pork sinigang is surely the ultimate comfort food for every Filipinos out there in the world. Sinigang is a sour soup full of vegetables and meat. Many people have their personal favorites on which type of meat to cook for sinigang, it can be fish, pork, beef, and even chicken if you want to be adventurous. The sourer the taste is the better.

This dish can be a bit intimidating to foreigners because of its sour taste but Filipinos learned to love it from a young age and its one of the staples in Filipino cuisine.

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In this guide, you will learn how to cook pork sinigang in 4 easy steps!

Pork Sinigang Ingredients

Here's a list of ingredients you need for cooking pork sinigang

1 kilo pork, cut into cubes
12 tamarind(sampalok) Or sampaloc mix
1 big onion (diced)
6 tomatoes (quartered)
2 radish (sliced)
1 bundle of string beans (sitaw), cut into 2 inches long
1 bundle of river spinach (kangkong leaves)
4 pieces taro (gabi), peeled and cut into cubes
2 pieces green pepper (siling haba)
salt and fish sauce (patis)
6 cups of water

How to Cook Pork Sinigang

STEP 1. Boil tamarind*, pound and strain the juice. Set aside.

STEP 2. In a casserole, bring pork to boil until tender.

STEP 3. Add onion, tomatoes, and tamarind juice.

STEP 4. Add gabi until tender and thickens the soup.

STEP 5. Simmer, then add radish, and string beans.

STEP 6. When tender, add kangkong leaves.

STEP 7. Season with salt or fish sauce according to taste.

STEP 8. Serve hot.

Notes:

You may use liempo, porkchop, kasim or ribs as pork
You may use santol as alternative to sampaloc.*
You may add lady’s finger(okra) or eggplant(talong) if desired.

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