Sardines with Misua and Patola

Sardines with Misua and Patola or basically — Misua Soup — is a general soup dish produced using flimsy flour noodles, sardines, and luffa. The meager flour noodles are known as misua in the Philippines. The sardines allude to canned sardines in tomato sauce, while luffa is a kind of vegetable; it is known as Patola in Filipino.

Ingredients

• 4 ounces Misua noodles
• 15 ounce canned sardines in tomato sauce
• 1 medium patola (luffa) peeled and sliced
• ½ cup chopped green onions
• ½ to 1 head garlic, crushed
• 1 medium onion, diced
• salt and pepper to taste
• 3 tablespoons cooking oil
• 4 to 5 cups water

Instructions

1. Heat the cooking oil in a soup pot.
2. Saute the garlic until medium brown.
3. Add-in the onion. Continue to saute until the texture becomes soft.
4. Pour-in the sardines in tomato sauce. Stir.Cook for a 2 minutes.
5. Put-in the patola and cook for 1 minute.
6. Pour-in the water. Let boil. Simmer for 3 to 5 minutes.
7. Add-in the misua. Gently stir. Cook for 2 minutes.
8. Add salt and pepper to taste. Put-in the green onions.
9. Transfer to a serving bowl. Serve.
10. Share and enjoy!