Super Sinigang

Sinigang is one of Alo's favorite dishes.  Its pork belly cooked in tamarind broth and commonly mixed with lots of vegetables.  However, it is not limited to pork, one can also cook it with beef, shrimp, or fish.  In this rendition of Sinigang, our goal was to present it in a unique way but maintaining the integrity of the dish's original flavor.  In doing so, we chose to prepare it with both pork, shrimp and vegetables such as baby Italian eggplant, mustard greens, okra, string beans, radish, gabi (root vegetable), and for a little spice, chili.

In preparing the dish, we stewed the pork in the tamarind broth until fork tender.  We then stewed the rest of the ingredients in the broth as well.  Originally the dish would be served with the broth after everything had been stewed but we decided to change it's presentation.  We thickened the broth into a sauce by adding gabi puree.  We also made pork cracklings from the skin of the pork for additional texture and garnish.

After all was complete, it was ready to be served! ENJOY! ENJOY! Mister, mister. 

- Alo and Boots

"He cooks, I eat. That's it!"