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{{Short description|Filipino smoked fish}}
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[[image:tinapa.jpg|thumb|Tinapa]]
'''''Tinapa''''', a [[Filipino language|Filipino]] term, is [[Fish as food|fish]] cooked or preserved through the process of [[Smoking (cooking)|smoking]]. It is a native delicacy in the [[Philippines]] and is often made from [[blackfin scad]] (''Alepes melanoptera'', known locally as ''galunggong''), or from [[milkfish]], which is locally known as ''bangus''.

Though canned ''tinapa'' in tomato sauce is common and sold commercially throughout the country, it is also still produced and sold traditionally or prepared at home. ''Tinapa'' recipe mainly involves the process of washing the fish and putting it in brine for an extended amount of time (usually 5 – 6 hours), air drying and finally smoking the fish. The fish species which are commonly used for making ''tinapa'' could either be ''galunggong'' (scads) or ''bangus'' (milkfish).<ref>[http://pinoycook.net/tinapa-smoked-fish-2/ "Tinapa (smoked fish)."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615210737/http://pinoycook.net/tinapa-smoked-fish-2/ |date=June 15, 2010 }} [http://pinoycook.net Pinoycook.net]. Accessed July 2011.</ref> 
<ref>[https://recipenijuan.com/tinapa-recipe/ "Tinapa Recipe Preparation and Method"]</ref> 

The term ''tinapa'' means "prepared by smoking". The root word ''tapa'' in [[Philippine languages]] originally meant fish or meat preserved by [[Smoking (cooking)|smoking]]. In the [[Spanish Philippines]], it came to refer to meats (modern ''[[tapa (Filipino cuisine)|tapa]]'') preserved by other means. It is derived from [[Proto-Malayo-Polynesian]] ''*tapa'', which in turn is derived from [[Proto-Austronesian]] ''*Capa''.<ref name="Capa">{{cite web |author=Robert Blust & Stephen Trussel|title=Austronesian Comparative Dictionary: *Capa |url=http://www.trussel2.com/acd/acd-s_c2.htm#25876 |website=Austronesian Comparative Dictionary |access-date=July 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=English |first=Leo |title=English &mdash; Tagalog Dictionary |publisher=Congregation of The Most Holy Redeemer |date=1989 |orig-year=1st. Pub. 1977 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/englishtagalogdi00leoj/page/966 966] |isbn=971-08-2962-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/englishtagalogdi00leoj/page/966 }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Tortang sardinas]]
*[[Daing]]
*[[Odong]]

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