Tamarind Fruit – Famous Filipino Food Seasoning

Author: Daisy
Tamarind translated as Sampalok on Filipino language is a popular tropical fruit for Filipino cuisine. It is obviously from Tamarind and believes that originate in India. Tamarind is usually use during its ripe and unripe stage, ripe tamarind usually prepare for candies, it is usually cook with sugar and cover with salt.
The product is usually rolled with cellophane to cove and usually sold on small grocery store. The ripen tamarind fruit is usually for food seasoning to add sourness to the recipe, it is usually included on Sinigang recipe or pinangat na Isda. Sampalok leave sprout is also included as a filling to add flavor to lechon baboy, lechon is the process of roasting a whole pig skewered at bamboo pole. Now a days, Filipino cook merely use natural Tamarind as a soup base because the process is gruesome and time consuming as there are a lots of process needed just to extract the juice. People start using synthetic powder as an alternative, the seasoning offer same taste as the fruit but it is not as healthy friendly like the fruit. I have a here a sample of one of my favorite Filipino recipe, this recipe is not really expensive and yet the taste is so mouth watering.
Sinigang na Ulo-Ulo ng Isda (Fish Head on Tamarind Soup)
Sinigang is one of most day to day house hold Filipino recipe, it is usually cook with pork, beef, chicken, and fish. With this recipe, we are going to cook sinigang with fish head.
Ingredient for Cooking:
1 kg big fish head (Red Snapper or other Deep Sea Fish)
1 bundle of kangkong (Swamp Cabbage)
1 bundle of string bean, cut into 1 inch
1 pc labanos (radish) peeled and cut slanted ½ cm thick
Vetsin (Optional)
Sili
Salt to taste
2 pcs tomato, quartered
1 onion, skinned
Raw Tamarind Fruit, 150 grams
How to Cook Sinigang na Ulo-Ulo
In a pan, bring to boil ½ cup of water with tamarind until it is well done, mashed cook tamarind to extract juice using ladle. Separate juice using strainer while continuously mashing using ladle. In a separate casserole, bring to boil 1 liter of water along with tomato, onion, and a tsp of salt. When broth start to boil, add fish head and simmer for few minute or unit fish is well done. Add kangkong, stringbean, labanos and sili. Add tamarind juice to boil, add salt or additional tamarind broth according to taste. Sinigang na ulo ulo is usually served with spicy fish sauce with hot steamy rice.
Sinigang na isda is just a sample of Filipino recipe that includes tamarind as a seasoning as there is still a lots of recipe that uses tamarind as a flavoring.
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About the Author
Hello I am Daisy, I just want to share my blog about Filipino Recipe as Cooking is my passion, It include Spaghetti and Chopsuey which is my kids all time favorite.