Sinigang na Hipon

Name: Sinigang na Hipon
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Filipino
Ingredients: 500g prawns, shell-on; 1 packet tamarind powder or 200g fresh tamarind; 200g kangkong or spinach; 2 tomatoes, quartered; 1 onion, quartered; 2 long green chillies; 200g radish, sliced; 1L water; fish sauce to season

Filipino sour tamarind soup with prawns and vegetables — a bright, lip-puckering broth that defines Filipino home cooking.

Total time

40 min

Prep

15 min

Cook

25 min

Difficulty

easy

Cuisine

Filipino

Ingredients

500gprawns, shell-on

1 packettamarind powder or 200g fresh tamarind

200gkangkong or spinach

2tomatoes, quartered

1onion, quartered

2long green chillies

200gradish, sliced

1Lwater

fish sauceto season

Instructions

Boil onion and tomatoes in water 10 minutes. Mash to release juice.

Add tamarind. Taste — it should be sourly bracing.

Add radish and chillies. Simmer 5 minutes.

Add prawns. Cook 3 minutes until pink.

Add kangkong. Simmer 1 minute. Season with fish sauce. Serve with rice.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories

146

Protein

30.8g

Fat

0.5g

Carbs

5.1g

Fiber

1.2g

Sodium

143mg

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