Recipe: Red Sinampalukang Manok

MANILA, Philippines — You’ve had Sinampalukang Manok several times before, and you like it because it is like sinigang but it uses chicken as main ingredient instead of the pork, beef, bangus, maya-maya, salmon head, or shrimps used in sinigang.

Innovate some more by making it Red Sinampalukang Manok instead of the regular Sinampalukan. Del Monte shows how:

Red Sinampalukang Manok

INGREDIENTS:

2 Tbsps. oil for sautéing

1/4 cup onion, sliced

1 Tbsp. ginger, cut into strips

500 grams chicken, thigh and leg, cut into serving portions

1 1/2 Tbsps. patis (fish sauce)

1 pouch Del Monte Original Style Tomato Sauce (200g)

1 cup water

1 cup sitaw, sliced

1 pc. siling pansigang

2 cups puso ng saging (banana heart), trimmed and sliced

1 1/2 Tbsps. sinigang mix

2 1/4 cups cabbage, sliced

PROCEDURE:

1. Sauté onion, ginger and chicken in oil for 5 minutes. Add patis, tomato sauce, and water. Boil, cover, and simmer for 10 minutes.

2. Add sitaw, sili, and banana heart. Simmer for another 5 minutes or until vegetables are tender.

3. Stir in sinigang mix, then add cabbage. Allow to simmer.