Last week, my entire household came down with the flu. We were tired, achy, and in need of some good old comfort food. And for us, that is sinigang, a Filipino soup that is sour and salty and filled with tender pork and hearty vegetables.
I love using my crockpot to make this soup because it requires very little preparation (which is a relief since I used to spend hours checking on a simmering pot of soup). Here I also provide a list of substitutions because not all the ingredients are easy to find in North America.
Recipe Card
Slow Cooker Sinigang
Ingredients
Instructions
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- Chop tomato and quarter the onion. Put in the slow cooker with cubed pork belly and stewing pork. Cover with water
- Cook in the slow cooker for 6 hours on low or 4 hours on high.
- Stir in chopped daikon (quarter rounds) and long beans (1 inch). Add soup mix (or lemon or tamarind paste)
- Cook for another hour
- Stir in spinach and adjust seasoning. Simmer 5 minutes.
- Serve with rice.
I’m going to have to try this. Some of these ingredients I’ve never heard of but I’ll look online to see if I can snag them! Nothing like a good soup when your feeling under the weather!
When do you put the fish sauce? And when you say adjust the seasoning at the end – do you mean more salt? More fish sauce? Thank you.
Oh great question! I put the fish sauce in at once I’ve added the other ingredients (daikon, sinigang mix etc) in step 3. And absolutely – I adjust seasonings by adding more fish sauce if needed. However, some people may prefer salt to fish sauce for the end. I may also add more sinigang mix if I want it REALLY sour