Good day hivers of this amazing Aseanhive community. Today I'm going to share you a recipe that is my viand a year ago or what I mean, the last time I ate this was one year ago. This is a very simple recipe and vegetable lovers can relate this food. Today I will be showing a noodle soup with vegetable and fermented fish with tomato sauce.
The ingredients I use are the following:
Sponge gourd
Sardines
Misua
Onion
Garlic
Salt
Msg
This is the sponge gourd but locally we called it sikwa in our own dialect. This is a vine that crawls everywhere. We have a plant like this in our backyard in my hometown but it's better to have this in the kitchen part of the house because the smoke helps this plant to have lots of flowers. This has a good smell and if it is overripe, this is use as a body mesh.
Then this one is the sardines. There are lots of brands and sizes of a sardines but this brand is cheaper or the taste is worth the price. There actually lots of cheaper ones but I don't like its tastes. This is a fermented fish with tomato sauce.
Then the onion and garlic which is the main spices to every fried recipe
Misua is also known as wheat vermicelli, it is a very thin variety of salted noodles made from wheat flour.
This is the cheapest noodle in the market and it's so brittle but it's okay to break because actually when you put it on the soup you need to break it too. There is also a yellow variation for this.
I remove the green peel of it and then sliced it accordingly. I prefer to have thinner slices so it's easy to cook.
When everything is ready I just open the stove and hey ready the pan, then fry the onion and garlic.
Then add the sardines. Let it boil for 2 minutes then 2 cups of water.
Then add all the seasoning which is the msg and magic sarap.
Then when it's boiled add the noodle and the vegetable and let it boil for 3 to 5 minutes in a medium heat.
Then it is ready to serve. It's best eaten during hot or after it was cooked because the soup in it will gradually sip by the noodles causing it to look dry for several hours.
This recipe is pretty much simple and common especially in the rural areas who loves vegetables. My mother always say that eating can goods is not good at health that's why I always cook processed foods with vegetables.
By the way that's all for today hivers. Have a great day ahead!