Sinigang na kanduli sa miso
Traditionally served as a main dish (accompanied by rice), this catfish and miso sour soup is cooked with tamarind juice, yellow miso and mustard greens.
Servings 6 people
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons cooking oil
- 4 cloves garlic crushed
- 1 onion peeled and thinly sliced
- 3 tomatoes diced
- ¾ cup yellow miso
- ½ cup tamarind juice mixed with four cups water
- fish sauce to taste
- 1½ kilograms catfish (about 3.3 pounds) cleaned and cut into serving-size pieces
- 200 grams mustard leaves cut into halves if large
Instructions
- Heat the cooking oil in a pot and sauté the garlic, onion and tomatoes.
- When the garlic, onion and tomatoes start to soften, add the miso. Cook for a few minutes until the vegetables liquefy some more and the mixture turns a bit pasty.
- Pour in the diluted tamarind juice. Season with fish sauce to balance the sourness. If the broth is too sour, add more water.
- Add the fish. Bring to the boil. Lower the heat cover and simmer for about ten minutes.
- Add the mustard leaves and simmer for another three minutes.
- Ladle the soup into your favorite soup tureen or serving bowl and serve at once.
