Sinigang na Baboy

Ingredients:

• 3/4 kilo pork, cut into chunks

• 3 tomatoes, sliced

• 2 onions, diced

• 5 cloves of garlic, minced

• 100 grams kangkong (river spinach)

• 100 grams string beans

• 2 pieces horseradish, sliced

• 3 pieces gabi (taro), pealed

• 2 pieces sili (green finger pepper)

• 200 grams sampalok (tamarind)

• 3 tablespoons of patis (fish sauce)

• 1 liter of rice wash or water

Procedure:

• Boil sampalok in water until the shell shows cracks. Let cool then peel off the shells and with a strainer, pour sampalok (including water) into a bowl. Gently massage the sampalok meat off the seeds, strain again.
• In a pot, sauté garlic and onion then add the tomatoes. Let simmer for 5 minutes.
• Add pork and fish sauce then add the rice wash. Bring to a boil then simmer for 15 minutes then add the gabi. Continue to simmer for another 15 minutes or until the pork is tender.
• Add the horseradish and simmer for 10 minutes then add the string beans, kangkong and sili. Let boil for 2 minutes.
• Serve hot.

You can substitute the sampalok with any commercial seasoning mix like Knorr sampalok seasoning or tamarind bouillon cubes for this recipe.

source: http://www.filipinofoodrecipes.net