I created some strange #vegan subspecies of #Sinigang for my #lunch and it was one the best things I've ever made to eat despite taking about 10 minutes total. It took me longer than that to eat. I could do with a nap as a result though.

I created some strange #vegan subspecies of #Sinigang for my #lunch and it was one the best things I've ever made to eat despite taking about 10 minutes. I could do with a nap as a result though.

I created some strange subspecies of #Sinigang for my #lunch and it was one the best things I've ever made to eat despite taking about 10 minutes. I could do with a nap as a result though.

@pixiecata

#Sinigang lover here! 😉 I never tried this version.

Of course, I have to search about it :mastolol: and found this: https://pinoytrees.blogspot.com/2009/09/souring-agents-of-sinigang.html

Batuan, apparently is related to Mangosteen. Imagine that!

Apart from being a souring agent, how would you describe its taste?

#Sinigang is my favorite #Pinoy dish. Period. 😋

I have experimented with my own recipe variants, and lately I've been enjoying the vegetarian version -- especially since it's pretty quick to prepare.

Non-traditonal alternative ingredients:

✅ Mushrooms works.
✅ Tofu works, too. But the texture of momen tofu is better than kinogoshi.
✔️ I need to learn how to choose gabi (taro), to pick those that are "malábo"
✅ Miyeok (wakame) is an awesome replacement for kangkong (water spinach)

@cobie I would love to see that video! :mastolove:

#sinigang lover here, and my own take of my mom's sinigang recipe is adding doenjang (된장, fermented soybean paste) and miyeok (미역, wakame) .

so, when we all got on the video call, it was chaos. wonderful, beautiful chaos as everyone was preparing and #cooking their own variation of #sinigang while still remaining true to the dish's #filipino origins. and despite everyone being in different places in the process and doing different processes simultaneously, i was able to provide sufficient guidance the whole way through (while also preparing my own) and they all came out great. and, what's more, they all had fun doing it.

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i wrote up a #recipe for how i make #sinigang (the likes of which most of these friends had had in my home before), which was more annotation than it was recipe since i wanted to account for scarcity of ingredients, food preferences and tastes. i even honored requests for different preparations (seafood versus pork, slowcooker versus stove top, #InstantPot variation, etc.) so that folks' #cooking efforts yielded something that they would enjoy their own way.

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for 2023, i wasn't really feeling all that into doing a #birthday thing. the #pandemic still hangs over our head and so i definitely couldn't do an in-person, in-house event like in the before times. i figured i'd make myself some #FilipinoFood and maybe hang out with folks over #discord video chat. what started with that simple plan quickly turned into a cook-along video event where i walked 12 or so friends through the process of making #sinigang as they cooked along virtually.

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Nothing better than your wife's Pork Sinigang 😋
#cooking #sinigang #philippines