Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, chicken and ginger soup with chayote & spinach(tinolang manok). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Tinola na May Sayote "Hindi sa akin yan…Sayo te!" A friend jokingly commented, to many people they know the vegetable as 'chayote' in Filipino language it's 'sayote' haha! This soup is my version of a chilhood food memory: Tinolang Manok, a Filipino chicken soup that a friend's mother served me when I was in my teens. It's warming, comforting and ginger forward and utter perfection during cold winter months.
Chicken and Ginger Soup with Chayote & Spinach(Tinolang Manok) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Chicken and Ginger Soup with Chayote & Spinach(Tinolang Manok) is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have chicken and ginger soup with chayote & spinach(tinolang manok) using 13 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken and Ginger Soup with Chayote & Spinach(Tinolang Manok):
- Prepare 4 large chicken thighs, skin on, bone-in
- Prepare to taste Sea salt,
- Prepare to taste Cracked black pepper,
- Prepare 1 teaspoon canola oil
- Get 2 two-inch pieces fresh ginger, each about thumb-sized, peeled and julienned
- Get 4 fat cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
- Get 1/2 large onion, rough chopped
- Make ready 2 quarts water
- Take 3 tablespoons fish sauce
- Get 1 large chayote, peeled, cut in half lengthwise then cut crosswise into ½-inch thick slices
- Get 1 tablespoon Knorr chicken bouillon
- Take 5-6 ounce bag ready to use baby spinach
- Take 1 lime, cut into 4 wedges, for serving
Tinola, a comforting chicken soup seasoned with plenty of ginger and garlic, has countless variations throughout the Philippines. The soup calls for malunggay leaves (aka moringa), which can be found fresh or frozen at Asian markets. Bok choy is a good substitute. Feel free to increase the amounts of garlic and fish sauce for an even more flavorful soup.
Steps to make Chicken and Ginger Soup with Chayote & Spinach(Tinolang Manok):
- Liberally season thighs with salt and pepper on both sides. Heat the oil in a dutch oven or large soup pot on medium heat. Once hot, add the chicken, browning on both sides. Remove chicken to a plate and drain away all but 1 tablespoon of the chicken fat.
- Add the ginger to the pot and sauté for 1 minute then add a splash of water, stirring to loosen up the browned bits stuck to the bottom of the pan.
- Continue stirring for one minute then add the onions and garlic, sautéing until the vegetables are tender, about 3 to 5 minutes longer.
- Return the chicken to the pot along with any juices they released.
- Pour in 2 quarts of water, add the fish sauce and bouillon, stirring well to incorporate then cover and bring to a boil.
- As soon as the soup starts to boil, turn down the heat to the lowest setting to just barely produce a simmer and set a timer for 35 minutes.
- Once the timer goes off, remove the chicken to a clean platter; set aside.
- Carefully strain the soup, discarding the now spent veggies.
- Rinse out the dutch oven or soup pot and return it to the heat on medium low, add back the now strained and clear broth.
- Remove and discard the skins from the chicken. Using two forks, shred the chicken, pulling it away from the bones; discard the bones and return the shredded chicken to the simmering broth.
- Taste the broth and add more salt if needed.
- Add the chayote and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes or until the vegetable is fork tender but still firm.
- Turn off the heat. Add the spinach, pushing it down so it's submerged.
- Place the lid on the pot and let the spinach wilt for two minutes
- Garnish with a squeeze of lime.
I've seen chayote many times at the supermarket and always wondered what it tastes like and how you cook it. I finally decided to buy some with no recipe in mind, thinking that if it's in my refrigerator, I will use it eventually. This soup is also great for inflammation and arthritis, due to the healing qualities of gingerol (from the ginger). Have a cold or the flu? Try this soup to kick up your immune system and get healthy fast!
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