Filipino Tinola Recipes

CHICKEN TINOLA (FILIPINO TINOLANG MANOK)

Steps:

• Pat the chicken dry and put it in a storage container. Pour two tablespoons of fish sauce into the bowl and mix to make sure the chicken is thoroughly coated. Cover the container with a lid and marinate on the counter for at least two hours. Note: If you put the chicken in the fridge to marinate, you need to remove it at least 20 minutes before cooking to bring it to room temperature, otherwise the chicken will cook unevenly.
• In a pot over medium heat, add the vegetable oil and the onions. Saute for about one to two minutes or until the onions are translucent. Add the garlic and ginger and cook for one minute until fragrant, but not burned.
• Add the chicken into the pot and stir all the ingredients. Continue to the chicken in the pot for 6-8 minutes or until the chicken is brown on the outside, or the internal chicken temperature reads 135 °F.
• Add the water and the rest of the fish sauce into the pot and stir. Raise the heat to medium-high and bring to a boil.
• Lower the heat to medium-low and continue a simmer for about 30 minutes covered with the lid.
• Remember to stir occasionally and skim the fat and scum off the top of the soup.
• Add the chayote and continue to cook for 8 minutes or until the chayote is soft and you can pierce it easily with a fork.
• Add all the spinach.
• Immediately add all the moringa, then cook for up to one minute to soften the leaves.
• Taste test the soup and add the black pepper. If necessary, add additional salt or pepper to taste. The chicken should be tender and the internal temperature should read 165 °F.

TINOLA (FILIPINO GINGER-GARLIC CHICKEN SOUP)

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add onion, ginger and garlic; cook, stirring, until the onion starts to turn translucent, about 3 minutes. Add chicken and broth; cook, stirring, until the chicken is just cooked through, about 5 minutes. Add papaya (or chayote), malunggay (or bok choy), fish sauce, salt and pepper; continue simmering until the vegetables are tender and the flavors have melded, about 5 minutes more.

CHICKEN TINOLA

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large pot over medium heat; cook and stir the onion and garlic in the hot oil until fragrant. Quickly stir the ginger and fish sauce into the onion and garlic mixture before adding the chicken; cook together for 5 minutes. Pour the chicken broth over the mixture and cook another 5 minutes. Add the chayote to the mixture and simmer until the chicken is no longer pink in the center, about 10 minutes more. Season with salt and pepper. Add the bok choy and spinach; cook until the spinach is just wilted, 1 to 2 minutes. Serve hot.

FILIPINO TINOLA

Steps:

• Saute garlic, onion and ginger in oil for 30 seconds over med heat.
• Add chicken and saute until chicken meat turns white. Add fish sauce.
• Cover and simmer until chicken is almost completely cooked (7-10 min.). At this point, there will be a fair amount of broth, since all the juices from the chicken are coming out.
• Add water (I usually add 3/4 cup and that gives me a pretty good, concentrated flavor. my mom adds a little more than a cup, and the flavor is much mellower and sometimes I add more fish sauce at the table. really, you should just experiment).
• Add chayote and simmer for 5 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
• Serve over rice.