July Photography Challenge – Food

I normally post food photos and recipes in my other blog. Since this month´s challenge is Food over at Graham´s, where a monthly photo challenge is given. I thought that there would be nothing special if I just give a link to that blog, so here is where I opted to post my food photos. Chica, thanks again for leading me to the page. 🙂

Sinigang (tamarind stew) is a dish famous in the Philippines but is not served as soup, rather as a viand. The main ingredient for sinigang is not the meat but that which makes it sour. There are different ingredients one can use such as miso, tamarind, guava, calamansi, kamias or even raw mango.

Pork, milkfish and shrimp are the more popular meat used for sinigang, interestingly, vegetables combined and which base to be used for making the soup sour is different for each.

1/2 kg shrimp
1 white radish, sliced
kangkong (water spinach), cut up; unpleasant leaves and stalk removed
5 ripe tomatoes, sliced
1 red onion, cut in half and sliced (optional)
1 packet tamarind soup base -available at Asian shops (or 100 grams tamarind, boiled mashed and drained)
salt

Directions:

1. In a pot, mash onion, tomatoes and 1 tsp salt with hands.
2. Add water and bring to boil. Empty tamarind soup base pack.