Recipe: Perfect Chicken Tinola

Chicken Tinola. Reviews for: Photos of Chicken Tinola. Chicken Tinola is a Filipino soup dish. It involves cooking chicken pieces in ginger broth.

I would say that next to Adobo, Tinola is the most favorite. This video teach you How to Cook Chicken Tinola. It is a type of Filipino chicken soup with young papaya or chayote, spinach, malunggay, in ginger broth. You can have Chicken Tinola using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chicken Tinola

1. You need 1/2 of k chicken (with bones) chopped.
2. Prepare 2 cups of dahon ng sili/chili leaves or malunggay.
3. You need 2 of chayote peeled and sliced or 2 unripe green papaya wedges.
4. It's 8 cups of water.
5. You need 4 cloves of garlic minced.
6. It's 1 of medium sized onion diced.
7. It's 1 of garlic peeled and julienned.
8. It's 1 of chicken broth cube.
9. You need 2 tablespoons of fish sauce.
10. You need of Cooking oil.
11. It's to taste of Salt and pepper.

Tinola is a Filipino chicken soup usually served as an appetizer or a main entrée with white rice. Traditionally, this dish is cooked with chicken, wedges of green papaya, and leaves of the siling labuyo chili pepper in broth flavored with ginger, onions and fish sauce. Chicken tinola is a classic Filipino dish that features ginger and onion as its main flavors. By cooking the chicken at a low temperature for a while, you'll bring out its flavor too and sliced green papaya.

Chicken Tinola instructions

1. Saute ginger in oil for about 2 minutes. Add garlic and onions. Cook until garlic is golden brown and onions are translucent. Set aside. Using the same pan cook chicken for about 10 minutes until sides have slightly browned. (I like my chicken cooked in oil and slightly browned, although you don't need to do this as we will still cook the chicken in boiling water)..
2. In a pot with water and medium heat/fire, transfer sauteed garlic, onion, ginger, slightly browned chicken, and add chayote or green papaya. Bring to a boil. Add chicken broth cube, fish sauce, salt and pepper. Cook for 20-30 minutes or until chicken is done and chayote or papaya is tender..
3. Turn heat to low and add dahon ng sili/chili tops or malunggay leaves. Simmer for 2 minutes and turn off heat. Serve with steamed rice and enjoy!.

Chicken tinola was a huge favorite with my family when my brother and I were growing up. My father taught me how to make a special dipping sauce to make the tinola experience even more satisfying. This is a guest post by my good friend Marivic Pinedo who is sharing with you her favorite childhood Filipino dish today! Growing up in a Filipino household, it was normal. Chicken Tinola Recipe is a nutritious dish and one of the authentic Filipino recipes and it is one of a kind among Asian dishes.