Recipe: Tasty Sinigang Na Bangus

Sinigang Na Bangus. Sinigang na Bangus is a type of sour clear broth fish soup. This recipe that we have here is basic, but it is my favorite among all the versions that I have tried. My family likes this too because it is simple and delicious.

The sour taste makes it even more appetizing and appealing even to people who have tasted it for the first time. It involves different types of ingredients including mustard greens, tomato and even long green peppers. Sinigang na bangus is an authentic Filipino dish which consists of milkfish or bangus, tamarind mix and vegetables such as stringbeans and kangkong. You can cook Sinigang Na Bangus using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Sinigang Na Bangus

1. You need of Soup base.
2. You need 1 of Milk Fish (Bangus) - belly portion "boneless".
3. You need 3 of Ginger (3 fingers) - crushed.
4. It's 2 of Tomato - cut in quarters or eights.
5. It's 1 bunch of Green onion - chopped.
6. It's 1 medium of Onion - chopped or sliced.
7. Prepare 1 of Patis - 3-4 ladles.
8. Prepare 1 of 4-5 pcs Calamansi fruit or Tamarind soup base mix. Add to taste..
9. It's of Vegetables.
10. Prepare 1 bunch of Kamote (Sweet Potato Leaves).
11. It's 1 of White radish (Daikon) - sliced.
12. You need of Optional Vegetables.
13. Prepare 1 of Eggplant.
14. You need 1 bunch of Ong Choy.
15. Prepare 1 bunch of Okra.

You can also add other vegetables such as eggplant, radish, okra and taro. This is easy to cook since all you have to do is to boil water and add the fish, vegetables and tamarind mix. This is best served with fried meat. Sinigang is a Filipino dish characterized by the sour and savoury tamarind flavored soup.

Sinigang Na Bangus step by step

1. Fill stock pot half way with water. (About 3 quarts).
2. Add vegetable ingredients of soup base and bring water to a boil..
3. Add about 3-4 ladle full of Patis. Or to taste before adding fish..
4. Add fish and boil for another 3 minutes or until fish is cooked (meat turns white)..
5. Add calamansi juice or tamarind soup mix..
6. Add more Patis to taste..
7. Add Kamote and radish..

A lof of Filipinos loved this dish, and it is very flexible, as you can just change the main ingredient, in this case the Bangus (milkfish) and change it with cubed Pork Belly or Pork ribs (Sinigang na Baboy) or Shrimp (Sinigang na Hipon), and many other versions. HOW TO COOK SINIGANG NA BANGUS: Bring water to a boil. Add the tomatoes, and onion and simmer for few minutes. Sinigang na bangus or milkfish in sour broth is an all time favorite dish of Filipinos. The sour taste of tamarind gives the distinctive taste of the broth.