Cooking Lesson #7: How to Cook the Filipino Dish "Pork Sinigang"

"Cooking Lesson #7: How to Cook the Filipino Dish Pork Sinigang"

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Hello and welcome to another lesson of my cooking blog series. Today I would like to share to you my own version of Sinigang na Baboy or Pork Sinigang. Basically, sinigang is famous for its sour and savory taste which is often associated with tamarind.

What is Sinigang?

According to Wikipedia, sinigang is a Filipino soup-based dish known for its sour taste. This dish is also related to the Malaysian dish singgang. Also, history tells that the dish originates in Tagalog culture.

Various versions can also be found in different places of the country. For example, as for me, I always prefer adding ginger and prefer the sourness of the soup to be slight. So below, is my simple version of cooking Pork Sinigang.

What are the ingredients?

I use pork meat as our main ingredient while other people might also prefer fish for this. For our pork meat, I prefer the ones with bones. Just tell the vendor to cut it to small pieces or to any of your preferred sizes.

I bought this one below for only 75 pesos, that’s only $1.50 if you’d ask.

Then we need our complete spices. As I say, various versions of this dish can be found all over Philippines, thus spices may also vary. For my own version, you’ll need ginger, onions, spring onions, bell peppers, some chili peppers, cabbage and our Knorr Sinigang recipe mix.

You can also add salt if you also prefer the sourness of the soup to be mild. Of course we need to first, slice our spices accordingly.

The Procedure

The first thing to do is to soften our pork meat by boiling it slowly. You can also manually check the meat. Again, you can add any amount of salt; it all depends on your own preference.

Then as soon the meat becomes soft, add the sliced ginger, onions, the chili peppers and our Knorr Sinigang complete recipe mix. You can stick to traditional way of cooking this dish using tamarind.

Mix and homogenize the mixture by stirring it, then let it settle and boil for 10 to 15 minutes. After it boils, add the cabbage and the spring onions. You can also boil it a little longer if you want the cabbage to be not half cooked.

For me, I waited for another 5 to 10 minutes, checked the taste of the soup, adjusted it then I'm done! Our Pork Sinigang is ready! By the way, my Pork Sinigang might just looked like Nilagang Baboy but it is really Pork Sinigang haha!

Thank you for taking the time to read my cooking lesson of pork sinigang! If you want to read the previous lesson, CLICK HERE