One quick and easy soup recipe is Sardines with Misua. This recipe converts canned Sardines (or Mackerel) in tomato sauce into a simple but flavorful soup dish.Misua are thin flour noodles that are usually added to soups. Almondigas (or Misua with patola soup) is a good example of a soup dish that uses Misua.
In this recipe, you can use any brand of sardines as long as it is in a tomato based sauce. One small cylindrical can of sardines should be enough for the entire process. If you like to add vegetables to this recipe, please feel free to do so. Upo (bottle gourd), chayote, and patola (loofa) are some of the vegetables that I can suggest.
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Try this Sardines with Misua Recipe and let us know what you think.
Sardines with Misua Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 small can sardines in tomato sauce
- 2 ounces misua thin flour noodles
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 small onion minced
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1 tablespoon toasted garlic
- 1 teaspoon scallion chopped
- 2 tablespoons cooking oil
Instructions
- Heat a cooking pot and pour-in oil.
- When the oil is hot enough, sauté garlic and onions.
- Add the sardines including the sauce and cook for 2 minutes.
- Put-in fish sauce and ground black pepper then stir.
- Add water and let boil.
- Put-in the misua and cook for 3 to 5 minutes under medium heat.
- Turn-off the heat and transfer to a serving bowl.
- Garnish with toasted garlic and chopped scallions on top.
- Serve hot. Share and enjoy!
Luther says
I always check panlasangpinoy.com for some recipes and especially if I don’t know what to cook for lunch or dinner. This site is very helpful. Almost all of the dishes my Mom used to prepare for us is here. Thank you for sharing this.
Vanjo Merano says
You are welcome. Thanks for making this blog your go-to site for Filipino recipes.
Michiko Mendola says
what does sardines in tomato based means? Im a newbie in cooking and that sentence makes me confused whether it is just a normal sardine that u can buy from any other store or it is a combination of sardine and tomato sauce and you have to mix for it to combine.?
Vanjo Merano says
Michiko, thanks for asking. Sardines in tomato based sauce (or simply in tomato sauce) is your regular sardines in can.If you are in the Philippines, these are the ones in either red or green packaging. I made it specific because there are other types of canned sardines such as Spanish sardines and sardines in different types of oils.
Dalyn says
Thank you so much for these recipes! I literally don’t know how to cook. But now I’m starting to learn and I’m cooking my own food now ever since I I found out that I can use your site as a cheat sheet. Thank you so much!
Vanjo Merano says
Thanks for the feedback. The pleasure is mine. Let me know what dishes have you tried so far, and how did it went.
Tess says
Unbelievable how a simple dish like this is in your website! Yours is truly a pinoy cooking site! Kudos.
Ras says
Thanks for sharing another awesome recipe!
tanya says
THis is great! Very yummy and affordable! WHo would’ve expected a yummy meal for 3-4 people with only sardines (11pesos)and misua(2pesos). Bravo!
ibarra says
we cook this like bistek with soy sauce and onions, frying up the sardines before adding it in the soup.
hungrynez says
hmm.. this is great as rainy season comes in the country…
julz says
its true i still remember when my father used to cooked this for us during rainy season and when there was a typhoon…i miss that moments with my whole family when we were still young…