Tinola is one of the famous and easy to cook Filipino dishes. This can be served as an appetizer of part of the main menu. It is commonly made of chicken cooked in broth with papaya and siling labuyo leaves flavored with garlic, ginger, onion and patis or fish sauce.
Today, there are also other variety of cooking tinola. Some replaces the chicken with pork or fish.
Papaya can be substituted with sayote or upo.. Instead of siling labuyo leaves, malunggay is used.
To make the dish more appetizing, a dash of turmeric powder is added to give more color.
Tinolang Manok
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Ingredients:
- 1/2 kilo chicken
- 1 pc medium papaya, peeled and sliced into wedges
- 1/2 cup malunggay leaves
- 1 medium-sized onion, chopped
- 1 thumb-sized ginger, minced
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tsp turmeric powder
- 1/ 4 cup patis (fish sauce)
- dash of ground pepper
- oil for sauteing
- 2-3 pcs siling haba, optional
Direction:
- Saute onion, garlic, ginger.
- Add chicken, ground pepper, and fish sauce.
- Continue sauteing until chicken turned light brown.
- Pour in 6 cups of water and add turmeric powder.
- Bring to boil and add papaya wedges.
- Simmer until papaya is cooked.
- Add siling haba and malunggay leaves.
- Simmer for another 2-3 minutes.
Serving Size: 3-4