Tanigue and Shrimp Sinigang
A classic sour soup in the Philippines rich in vegetables and proteins. Good for the cold and rainy days as comfort food.
This meal could be eaten at any time of the day but we prefer to have this meal for breakfast. It doesn’t matter if the weather is hot, this soup makes you welcome the asim kilig that warms both your heart and your stomach.
My mom likes to make this type of sinigang so everyone can enjoy it. I really like shrimp but my brother doesn’t so to maximize this dish without cooking for another meal is this sinigang. When this dish is served expect me to eat more rice than usual because it's that good.
Ingredients
- 8 pieces of large shrimp
- 4 slices of tanigue fish
- 5 pieces of okra
- 1 bunch of kangkong
- 4 medium tomatoes, sliced
- 2 bulbs of onions, sliced
- 2 thumbs of ginger, chopped
- 2 tbsp of fish sauce
- 1 liter of water
- Ground black pepper
- Sampalok (Tamarind)
Instructions
- In a soup pot, pour 1 liter of water, and wait for it to boil. Once boiled put in the sliced tomatoes, onions, and gingers, submerged until it boils again.
- Sprinkle in some ground pepper and add the kangkong leaves and okras. Wait for the soup to boil again.
- Pour fish sauce. Add the tanigue fish slices to the soup.
- After the soup boils add the large shrimp. Wait for the shrimp to turn orange (about 2 minutes).
- Add the sampalok to the amount of sourness you prefer. Then it's ready for serving.