Pork Sinigang is another favorite and a very popular Philippine dish much like the Adobo Chicken and Pancit Noodles. If you want comfort food, this Sinigang recipe is it! It's hearty enough to be a meal because the soup is made with country pork ribs and lots of vegetables. Talk about the "stick to your ribs" kind of dish!
The Sinigang Broth really makes this dish with its complex flavor because it's sweet, savory, and sour all packed into this very flavorful and tasty dish. The flavor comes from a fruit called Tamarind or "sampalok" in Tagalog.
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Why We Love This Dish
- This Pork Sinigang is a satisfying dish that you can enjoy any time of the year!
- The flavor is in the broth, so you can add any protein and use any vegetables you wish.
- You can cook this dish using an Instant Pot Multi-Use, Slow Cooker, or a stovetop using a Dutch Oven or any other stockpot. Check out my stovetop Pork Sinigang recipe!
Ingredients Needed
- Country Pork Ribs
- Spinach
- Eggplant
- Tamicon Tamarind Concentrate
- Tomato
- Green Beans
- Rutabaga
- Lemon
- Anaheim Pepper
Key Ingredients Notes
Tamarind concentrate is an all-natural paste made from the tamarind fruit. I like it because there are no preservatives or additives!
How To Make This Dish
- Step 1: Add the pork, tomato, tamarind, and water to the Instant Pot.
- Step 2: Cook for 20 minutes, when Instant Pot has vented and cooled, remove the pork and set it aside.
- Step 3: Set the Instant Pot for Sauté and add the vegetables in the order listed giving each to cook for two minutes at a time.
- Step 4: Add the pork back in. Season to taste with salt and more lemon juice if needed.
FAQ about Pork Sinigang
Yes! Pork Sinigang tastes great when also made in advance because it gives the flavor of all the ingredients to blend together.
Pork Sinigang should be properly refrigerated and should be eaten within 2 to 3 days
Yes, you can freeze the Pork Sinigang, for up to three months, note that fresh vegetables once cooked, frozen, then thawed, will never exactly look like how it was when fresh.
Yes! The Sinigang broth will freeze perfectly. You can store using freezer bags or mason jars.
Yes! Check out my recipe for Pork Sinigang which I cooked on a stovetop using pork belly.
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Ingredients
- 4 cups Water
- Juice from 1 whole lemon
- 1 to 2 Tablespoon Tamicon Tamarind Concentrate depending on taste
- 2 pounds Country Ribs Pork
- 1 medium Rutabaga sliced
- 2 cups Fresh Spinach
- 1 cup Fresh Green beans ends removed
- 1 Fresh Baby Eggplant cubed
- 1 Anaheim Pepper optional
- Kosher Salt to taste
Instructions
- Prep and cut up vegetables being sure they are all cut the same size to ensure they all cook at the same and has the same texture.
- In an Instant Pot, add 4 cups of water, pork {cut up 1" sections}, halved tomatoes, tamarind concentrate. Set Instant Pot on Pressure Cook for 20 minutes.
- After venting, set the Instant Pot to Sauté for 10 minutes then add the vegetables giving it 2 minutes of cooking time in between in this order, green beans, eggplant, pepper, rutabaga, spinach and lemon juice. Add salt to taste.
Notes
- Variation for meats: beef, fish, shrimp
- If you use meat, cooking time will be the same. If you use shrimp, I would recommend using a Stock Pot instead and cook the shrimp for 5-8 minutes, preferably shell-on variety for more flavor.
- Variation for vegetables: Kale, Mustard Greens, Collard Greens, Horseradish, Daikon, Okra
- Serve Sinigang with steamed rice.
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The Story
This recipe is a favorite among my nieces, especially Lauressa (pictured below) with her mom, Dina.
Dina, my late sister-in-law, passed at a very young age due to uterine cancer. God rest her soul. I miss her every day. Each time I visited them in FL, she would always ask me to make her Sinigang, which is her favorite Philippine dish. She would call it "Senegal." And during one of our final moments together, she told me to write a recipe book. So here you go. I love you Dina, I know you're smiling. I know you approve. 🥰
AAdkins
I wasn’t sure how to use my instant pot to cook pork sinigang. Thank you for sharing!
Jocelyn Wilhelm
Thank you for stopping by! Glad this helped! Let me know how you like it!
Kurt
This is literally the BEST soup I've ever eaten in the world! It's such a savory treat and you just know you're enjoying something that is really, really, really good for you. It's a very hearty soup that has meat and vegetables like rutabaga which you wouldn't normally eat, but MAN all the ingredients in this soup and with the heat of the pepper, WOW they all really go so well together. It's a very satisfying comfort food for sure!
Jocelyn Wilhelm
Thank you Kurt! Glad you enjoyed it and what a great review! Thank you for the kind words.