Sinarsahang Pork Ribs

Sinarsahang Pork Ribs is a saucy and savory dish made with bony pork spareribs and sauces like tomato paste, oyster sauce and soy sauce with onion, garlic, sprite, green pease, bell pepper and black pepper. With the combination of sweet, sour, tangy and savoury, this sinarsahang pork ribs, sabaw palang, ulam na! You’ll never get enough of this yummy pork ribs recipe!

Sinarsahang Pork Ribs Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 kilo pork ribs (sliced into serving pieces)
• 5 cloves of garlic (chopped)
• 1 medium onion (chopped)
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
• 250mL Sprite (or 7up)
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper powder
• 1/2 cup green peas (cooked)
• red and green bell peppers (chopped)
• 2 to 3 cups of water

Directions:

1. Wash and prepare the pork spare ribs.
2. Prepare a pot of water and bring it to a boil. Once boiling, add the pork spare ribs. Parboil them for just 10 minutes to remove impurities. Place the spare ribs on a plate and discard the liquid.
3. Heat some oil in another pan. Add the spare ribs and saute for a few minutes until brown.
4. Add the chopped garlic and onion and saute them together with the spare ribs. You may add a little extra oil if needed.
5. Make a hole at the center of the pan. Add the tomato paste and saute for a whole minute. Then, saute them together with the spare ribs and season with some black pepper powder.
6. Pour the Sprite, soy sauce and oyster sauce. Mix well and then add 2 to 3 cups of water.  Cover the pot and let it simmer using medium heat until the meat is tender. If the meat is not yet tender, add more water and continue cooking as needed.
7. Lastly, add the cooked green peas and sliced bell peppers. Toss for a few minutes. Once the ingredients come together, the dish is ready!
8. Transfer the sinarsahang pork spare ribs to a serving plate. Enjoy this with a big bowl of hot steaming rice. Yum!

What is Sarsa

Sarsa is the Spanish term for “sauce”. Although the original recipe for sarsa includes onion, tomatoes, chili peppers, oil, vinegar and other ingredients, the term sarsa is now commonly equates to the sauce of a very saucy viand or a dipping sauce to a fried dish. Sarsa is usually thick in consistency with a heightened savoury taste made to be partnered with meat, fish, chicken and veggies.

What I love about sinarsahan recipes (dishes with a lot of sauce) is that you can experiment with the flavorings you want to put in the sauce. With all the different seasonings from the Philippine cuisine, there would be endless combinations of sarsa recipes you can make. The goal of the sarsa is to be flavorful enough, where sarsa palang, ulam na!

Sinarsahang Pork Ribs

After I bought my air fryer to have a “healthier” diet, I have been eating a lot or air fried dishes to also enjoy my new appliance. While air fried dishes are wonderfully light and simple, you will really crave for saucy dishes after a few days. If you want some mesmerizing saucy ulam to top your rice bowl, the sinarsahang pork ribs is the only way to go.

What I really love about this dish is the extreme combination of flavors. The sour tomato paste, salty and umami soy sauce and oyster sauce and the sweet fruity hint of the lemon soda equates to the perfect concoction of a sauce that will go best with hot steaming rice. Good bye diet because sauce palang, ulam na!

If you wanna know how to make some sinarsahang pork ribs at home, simply read and follow the easy steps below. Happy cooking!

How to Cook Sinarsahang Pork Ribs

Preparing some sinarsahang pork spare ribs is super easy and straightforward. If you love saucy dishes, then this one is the perfect dish for you.

The first step in cooking this dish is preparing the ingredients. Our goal is to make the meat and the sauce complementary. So for this saucy recipe, pork spare ribs would be the perfect type of meat to use.  Spare ribs are very bony which will ensure that our thick savoury sauce will stick and sip in for later. Slice your spare ribs into serving portions.

Before the actual cooking, parboiling the spare ribs is an important step. This is done to remove the impurities, which you can see as the white foam which will rise to the top after 10 minutes of cooking. This white foam is not actually dirty, but it is the excess fat from the spare ribs. Not doing this step can affect the taste of the sauce for later as it can add a little “latak” after taste.

The next step would be sauteing the spare ribs in the aromatics. Then, the base we will use for this dish is the tomato paste. If you want a less sour sauce, you can use tomato sauce instead. The soy sauce and oyster sauce are then added to compliment the sourness of the tomato paste while the Sprite (or any lemon soda) is added to have a hint of fruity sweetness.

Once you are okay with the sauce, the next step is making sure that the meat is tender. Add enough water to cook the meat. Then, do a taste test and adjust the taste according to your preference. You can incorporate some fresh herbs and extra spices depending on your liking.

The last step would be adding the remaining ingredients which are the green peas and bell peppers. You can add other ingredients which you think will be a great match to the sauce.

Once done, serve this sinarsahang pork spare ribs with a lot of rice. While this dish is best eaten as a viand, you can also make a spicy version of this dish and enjoy it as a pulutan!

Paano magluto ng Sinarsahang Pork Ribs

Mga Sangkap:

• 1 kilo pork ribs (hiniwa sa serving pieces)
• 5 butil ng bawang (hiniwa)
• 1 sibuyas  (hiniwa)
• 2 kutsarang tomato paste
• 3 kutsarang toyo
• 2 kutsarang oyster sauce
• 250mL Sprite (o 7up)
• 1/2 kutsaritang paminta
• 1/2 tasang green peas (luto na)
• red at green bell peppers (hiniwa)
• 2 – 3 tasang tubig

Paano Lutuin:

1. Hugasan at ihanda ang spare ribs.

2. Magpakulo ng tubig sa kawali at ilagay ang spare ribs. Pakuluan ang mga ito ng 10 minuto para lumabas ang impurities. Kapag lumabas na ang white foam, alisin ang mga karne sa kawali at ilipat sa lalagyan. Itapon ang pinagpakuluan.

3. Magpainit ng mantika sa isa pang kawali. Ilagay ang mga spare ribs at lutuin hanggang maging brown. 

4. Ilagay ang sibuyas at bawang at igisa kasama ng spare ribs. Dagdagan ng konting mantika kung kailangan. 

5. Gumawa ng space sa gitna ng kawali. Ilagay ang tomato paste at igisa ng isang minuto. Saka ito igisa kasama ng spare ribs. Timplahan ito ng konting paminta. .

6. Sunod na ilagay ang Sprite, toyo at oyster sauce. Haluin ng mabuti. Maglagay ng 2 hanggang 3 tasa ng tubig para maluto ang karne. Takpan ang kawali at hayaan itong maluto gamit ang katamtamang apoy. Kapag matigas pa rin ang karne, dagdagan ang tubig at lutuin pa ito ng ilang minuto.

7. Huling ilagay ang green peas at ang mga hiniwang bell pepper. Haluin hanggang malagyan lahat ng sauce. Kapag luto na, ready na ito!

8. Ilipat ang sinarsahang pork spare ribs sa serving plate. Ihain ito kasama ng malaking bowl ng mainit nankanin. Yum!