This is Hulk's favorite food because it's green especially when it's too much spicy! Don't make me hungry, you wouldn't like me when I'm hungry! Kidding aside, Tinolang Manok with Malunggay Recipe is a simple and a basic soup for Filipinos. You can add chicken, ginger, lemongrass, chili leaves or malunggay and green papaya. It's the most favorite home style dish in the Philippines.
Traditionally speaking, Tinolang Manok is cooked with chicken, wedges of green papaya, and chili pepper leaves or you can add Bird’s eye chili leaves in broth flavored with ginger, onions and fish sauce. A common variant substitutes pork for chicken are chayote instead of papaya, or moringa leaves known as marungay or malunggay or “kamunggay” (in Cebuano), instead of using of pepper leaves.
INGREDIENTS:
1 kilo of Chicken drumstick or you can choose any parts of the chicken
1 small young papaya, chopped into pieces
2 tablespoons of ginger, crushed and sliced into strips
1/2 cup Moringa leaves(malunggay)
1 liter of water
3 siling haba ( long green chilis )
1-2 stalk of lemongrass
5 minced garlice cloves
5 pieces of tomatoes in small sizes, sliced ( optional )
1 diced red onion
4 tablespoons of cooking oil
2 tablespoons of patis (fish sauce)
HOW TO:
In a pot, heat the oil first and saute the garlic, onion, tomatoes, chicken and ginger.
When the tomatoes are already cooked you can add water and lemongrass.
Put into a boil and simmer for about 20 minutes or until chicken is almost done.
Season with patis(fish sauce) or salt.
You can add papaya and long green chilli, continue to simmer for an additional 5 minutes or until papaya is tinder but not overcooked.
Add Moringa leaves then turn off the heat.
Serve steaming hot with plain white rice.