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Chicken Tinola
My family loves fried chicken, so I usually indulge them. I on the other hand get so tired of it, I make something else for myself. I take the backs and wing tips, which no one really likes but me anyway, and I usually make either tinola or arroz caldo. I didn’t really have the usual vegetables for tinola, so I used cabbage and baby bok choy from our garden. It still came out pretty good.
UPDATED PHOTO (12/06/2010): I recently cooked this pepper leaves and green papayas, just the way it’s supposed to be. Click here for a new photo of chicken tinola.
Written by Jeanette Moore (JMom)
I am a terrible housekeeper but I do love to cook so it all evens out in the end. I like to try new recipes that I think my family will like. However, I am not one to follow all recipes to the letter. I tend to tweak and change the recipes based on what I have on hand and how I am feeling at the time. Feel free to share your versions, I just might try it out next time I make the dish again.
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hi Vhincent, you must be talking about malungay leaves. There’s an article and photos of it here: Malunggay Leaves
Thanks for dropping by
Was looking for the small leaves that is also put in some tinola recipes ( it comes with the branches and you have to pick them one by one?)
Anyway your recipe looks great also! just dropping by
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Interesting…i growing up in MN I only ever had cabbage in the tinola my lola made. She also added sutanhon (sp?)…celephane rice noodles. Ive always been interested how pinoy recipes have been somewhat altered to fit the local landscape. We never had problems finding patis though!
Hi Erwin, I’ve heard malunggay used for tinola before, my lola did the same, but I have never heard for jackfruit before! I am assuming you’re talking about the green jackfruit instead of the ripe?
Unfortunately, we don’t have 99 ranch here. I love 99 ranch! You must be in CA?
I sometimes use jackfruit and malunggay as a vegetable substitute. It’s available in many frozen section of asian stores like 99 ranch or Lyons.
Hi Bec, thanks for visiting. I too have had a hard time looking for the traditional tinola ingredients, like green papaya and sili leaves, so I improvise. Chayote which is now pretty common in grocery stores is a pretty good substitute for green papaya.
Thanks for posting this recipe! I was out surfing for recipes and found yours. My Lola’s recipe doesn’t have papaya in it, though.
It’s funny, but I didn’t grow up with tinola with papaya. Growing up in the Seattle area, there’s not much call for good papaya back in the 60s/70s. So my lola omitted it and I’ve never really thought much about how different it tastes from the ‘authentic.’
She also skipped the patis since high blood pressure ran in our family and the fish sauce tended to aggrevate it.