How to Make Tasty 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. 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. You can have Chicken Tinola using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chicken Tinola

1. It's 10 of chicken drummettes.
2. You need 1 knob of ginger; sliced.
3. You need 1/2 of onion, cut into wedges.
4. It's 4 cloves of garlic; chopped.
5. You need 2 of chayotes; cut into 2” chunks.
6. It's 3 handfuls of baby spinach.
7. You need 1 cube of Chicken bouillon.
8. It's to taste of Fish sauce.
9. Prepare 1 of chili; I used Thai chili but Serrano is preferred.
10. It's 1/2 tsp of nomnompaleo’s Magic Mushroom Powder (optional).

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. 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.

Chicken Tinola step by step

1. Prep your ingredients..
2. Sauté your onions in a little oil first. Then add your garlic until fragrant/translucent. (Don’t burn em!).
3. Heat up the chicken until it’s no longer pink..
4. Fillerup with water! Add 1 chicken bouillon cube. Once it comes to a rolling boil, reduce the heat to med and cover..
5. At around 15mins, skim off the oil at the top. Add in the chayote and a whole chili. When cutting your chayote, you wanna make sure you cut off all the white part. It’s tough to eat!.
6. Keep boiling on med heat for another 15mins or until the chayote is tender..
7. Add in some freshly ground black pepper and 1/2 tsp of magic mushroom powder. This stuff takes it to another level!.
8. Turn off the heat, add in your handfuls of spinach, and fish sauce to taste. I started with 3 tbsp fish sauce, and adjusted as needed. Enjoy!.

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. 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. Introducing Chicken Tinola, a favourite dish of the Philippines and a taste of our childhood.