Fishballs with Manong’s Special Sauce Recipe

Fishballs are always the first to come to mind when thinking about Filipino (Pinoy) street food. It is a guaranteed quick and affordable snack.

Fishballs as street food has always been associated with their crispiness and the sauce buyers call “Manong’s Sauce.” Eating fishballs without the sauce is a mortal sin.

Cooking fishballs is the easy part. Imitating manong’s special fishball sauce is every home cook’s dream. Try this version of manong’s sauce. You can have sauce as much as you want! Try making one at home today!

Recipe for Fishballs with Manong’s Special Sauce:

Fishballs with Manong’s Special Sauce Recipe

Recipe by Yummy FoodCourse: APPETIZER, MERIENDACuisine: FilipinoDifficulty: Easy

Fishballs are always the first to come to mind when thinking about Filipino (Pinoy) street food. It is a guaranteed quick and affordable snack.

Ingredients

• Fishballs:

• Packed fishballs

• Oil (for cooking)

• Special Manong’s Sauce:

• 4 cups water

• ⅓ cup soy sauce

• 2 tbsp cornstarch

• 2 tbsp flour

• ¾ cup brown sugar

• 1 shallot, finely chopped or minced

• 3 cloves garlic, minced

• salt

Directions

• In a saucepan, combine all of the special manong’s sauce ingredients. Mix well until free of lumps.
• Place on stove top then cook by gently simmering in medium-low heat until sauce thickens.
• Deep fry fishballs according to your preference.
• Serve fishballs with the special manong’s sauce.

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