Healthy and Tummy-Warming Misua Recipe

Make a bowl of patola and misua soup with our misua recipe! This misua recipe includes patola, also known as sponge gourd, ground pork, and misua (Chinese vermicelli). This Filipino dish only takes 30 minutes to make! Not to mention, it’s a hearty and tummy-warming dish you’d enjoy on a rainy and cosy day.

Meal: Lunch, Dinner
Cuisine: Filipino

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Total time: 30 minutes
Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

• 3 medium patola, peeled
• 15ml of canola oil
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 230g of ground pork
• 15ml of fish sauce
• 475ml of water
• 55g of misua noodles
• Salt to taste
• Pepper to taste

Equipment

• 1 frying pan
• 1 spatula

Directions

• Slice off both ends of the peeled patola and cut it crosswise into 6mm thick pieces.1
• Heat the oil in a frying pan over medium heat and add the chopped onion and minced garlic. Stir-fry until they’re soft.
• Add the ground pork, break it into smaller pieces with a spatula, and cook until lightly browned.
• Add fish sauce while stirring occasionally and cook for 1 to 2 minutes.
• Add water to the frying pan, bring it to a boil, and remove any scum on the surface.
• Reduce the heat and simmer the soup for 10 minutes.
• Add the sliced patola and cook for another 3 to 5 minutes.
• Add the misua noodles and cook until they’re soft.
• Lastly, season with salt and pepper to taste and serve immediately.

Alternate Ingredients and Methods

Feel free to substitute the ground pork with ground chicken, beef or shrimp. On the other hand, you can make also vegetarian patola and misua soup with vegetable broth and top it off with fried tempeh and shiitake mushrooms. If you prefer meatballs, you can combine your ground meat of choice with finely chopped green onions, minced garlic, and salt and pepper to taste. Roll the meat mixture into bite-size balls and cook them in the broth until firm.

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