This Filipino sinigang sour soup dish is mainly cooked with shrimp mixed with sampalok as a souring agent. Added with some vegetables.
It is a quick, refreshing, simple, and easy recipe with a unique savory and sour taste. It is good in cold weather. For souring agents, you can also use calamansi, santol, green mango, or lemon.
Table of Contents
Ingredients
- 1 kilo shrimp, deveined
- 1 white onion, cut
- Ginger
- 2 medium tomatoes, cut
- 1 radish, cut
- 1 medium eggplant, cut
- 5 cups water
- 1 pack Sinigang mix
- 1 bunch of kangkong (used leaves and stalks)
- 2 pcs green finger chili
- 2 tbsps fish sauce
Procedure
- In a pot, bring water to boil over high heat. Add onions, ginger, and tomatoes. Let it simmer for a couple of minutes and add radish, adjust the fire to medium heat.
- Add shrimp and let it turn into pink color, follow the Sinigang mix instruction and mix together. Simmer for 3 minutes then add eggplant and kangkong stalks. Boil until vegetables are halfway cooked.
- Season with fish sauce and taste. Then add kangkong leaves, green chili, and spring onion, push it down gently until it will be submerged, then simmer for a minute.
- Good serve while it’s hot with rice.
Cooking Tips
Before adding the tomatoes, onions, and ginger. Put them together in a bowl and squeeze and press it with 1 tsp of salt. This is my mother-in-law’s technique.
Make sure wash and rinse properly the shrimp. Discard the vein.
Soak kangkong in salt water. Wash and rinse properly.
Can add okra, string beans, or any vegetables you like.
Do not overcook vegetables.
Hipon Sinigang Sa Sampalok
Ingredients
- 1 kl shrimp, deveined
- 1 pc white onion, cut
- 1 pc small ginger
- 2 pcs medium tomatoes, cut
- 1 pc radish, cut
- 1 pc medium eggplant, cut
- 5 cups water
- 1 pack pack Sinigang mix
- 1 bunch kangkong (used leaves and stalks)
- 2 pcs green finger chili
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
Instructions
- In a pot, bring water to boil over high heat. Add onions, ginger, and tomatoes. Let it simmer for a couple of minutes and add radish, adjust the fire to medium heat.
- Add shrimp and let it turn into pink color, follow the Sinigang mix instruction and mix together. Simmer for 3 minutes then add eggplant and kangkong stalks. Boil until vegetables are halfway cooked.
- Season with fish sauce and taste. Then add kangkong leaves, green chili, and spring onion, push it down gently until it will be submerged, then simmer for a minute.
- Good to serve while it’s hot with rice.