Sinigang na Bayabas is a Filipino Soup dish prepared with Pork belly vegetables and tomatoes cooked in a soup infused with guava and hints of tamarind
Most of the Filipinos love sinigang specially the tamarind based variant but there are a lot of variations of this lovely soup dish, ingredients can vary like the use of different meats and vegetables but the stock or souring agent is barely changed as the tamarind will be the first choice for this dish.
There are some lesser known souring agents used also in this dish like guava, calamansi, lemon, balimbing (star fruit), kamias (bilimbi), raw mangoes, santol (wild mangosteen) which I suggest every sinigang lover should try because you will definitely have different experience on each of these variants.
For this post I will use guava as I had recently tried it when we had a dinner at our friends house and since then I started craving for it so I have to make my own at home. It has that guava sweet taste but I added some tamarind hint to it so it will still have that tangy flavour as this dish is the least sour among the souring agents I mentioned above.
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Ingredients
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1 kg Pork Belly, Cubed
2 cups unripe guavas (I chose two varieties the tropical and cherry guava), sliced
2 medium tomatoes, quartered
1 large onion, quartered
1 small packet sinigang (tamarind) mix
1 bunch spinach
2 cups taro, cut into cubes
1 okra, cut into 2 inch pieces
fish sauce
pepper
Instructions
Place pork, onion, tomatoes and guavas in a pot, pour water in pot until everything is barely covered. Bring to a boil then simmer for 45 minutes
Add taro then continue to simmer for 10 minutes.
Add the sinigang mix and okra and cook for 10 minutes
While boiling add the spinach leaves and cover, turn of the heat.
Season with pepper and fish sauce
