Recipe: Appetizing Chicken Tinola (Chicken Ginger Stew)

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Chicken Tinola (Chicken Ginger Stew). Tinolang manok or chicken ginger stew is one dish that almost all Filipino families cook and serve for lunch or dinner. Tinola is tasty dish made by boiling chicken sautéed in ginger and adding vegetables and spices. It is best eaten hot as soup or eaten with steamed white rice and seasoned with patis (fish sauce) and chilies.

Chicken Tinola (Chicken Ginger Stew)

The soup has a spicy fragrant taste to it thanks to the Ginger. The Green papaya added to the mix gives sweetness to the mix. In a pot, heat oil and sauté garlic, ginger and onions. You can cook Chicken Tinola (Chicken Ginger Stew) using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chicken Tinola (Chicken Ginger Stew)

  1. Prepare 1/2 kg of chicken.
  2. Prepare 1 small of ginger (cut into strips).
  3. Prepare 1 head of onion (chopped).
  4. It's 3 clove of garlic (pitted or chopped).
  5. Prepare 1 tbsp of fish sauce.
  6. You need 1 of chicken broth cubes.
  7. You need 1 small of green papaya/unripe papaya (cut into wedges).
  8. Prepare 10 of siling labuyo leaves (chili pepper).
  9. You need 1 liter of water.

Sauté ginger and garlic until fragrant. Add onions, stir-fry until softened and translucent. Pour in water (or rice water, if using). Lower the heat and let it simmer until chicken is half-done.

Chicken Tinola (Chicken Ginger Stew) step by step

  1. Fry onions,garlic and ginger in a hot oil..
  2. Add chicken. Cook until slightly brown..
  3. Add fish sauce..
  4. Add 1L water and chicken broth cubes. Simmer for 5-10mins..
  5. Then add the green papaya, bring to a boil until the papaya is cook..
  6. Add a pinch of salt and black pepper to taste..
  7. Add the sili leaves. Simmer for another 3-5mins. Do not over cook the vegetables..
  8. Serve hot..

OPTIONAL: half a Chicken Bouillion cube. Heat a saucepan large enough to slowly sweat the garlic, onions, and ginger. I usually go onions for a bit, then ginger, then garlic, and stirfry all of it together. Don't burn it or cook at super high heat, just caramelize it and get that awesome onion-garlic smell that doesn't come out of. Tinola, a comforting chicken soup seasoned with plenty of ginger and garlic, has countless variations throughout the Philippines.