Batchoy Kapampangan
Batsui or batchoy kapampangan soup dish is a ginger-flavored soup consisting mainly of pork meat, pancreas, kidney and vermicelli.
Servings: 6 servings
Calories:
Ingredients
- 1 kilo pork belly cut in strips
- 4 pcs pork kidney cut in strips
- 1 cup pork pancreas (lapay/kundilat) cut in small pieces
- 1-2 thumb-size ginger cut in strips
- 1 medium onion sliced
- 3 cloves garlic chopped
- 1 cup vermicelli sotanghon
- 3 tbsp fish sauce
- 3 cups water
- ¼ tsp salt for rubbing on the pork kidney
- 2 tbsp cooking oil
Instructions
- Cut the kidneys in half-lengthwise and remove the white veins and fat. Rub with salt and wash thoroughly together with other pork parts. Set aside
- In a pot, saute ginger, garlic, and onion in oil over medium heat until translucent and aromatic.
- Add the cut kidneys and pancreas (lapay) and fry for a couple of minutes until brown. Pour fish sauce and stir. Add pork belly strips then stir and fry until the sauce is absorb by the meat.
- Add water and let simmer until pork is tender. Taste and adjust with fish sauce if needed.
- Add the vermicelli (sotanghon) and let simmer for 20 minutes or until the vermicelli is cooked.
- Transfer in a serving bowl and serve hot with steaming rice! Bon Appetit!