Chicken tinola is a Filipino dish, it’s like chicken stew. Its soup is like chicken stock but more flavorful with the ingredients that we put in like ground pepper, salt, ginger and the usual onion and garlic.
We first saute in oil the onion, garlic and ginger, and put the chicken in then cook until the chicken meat is no longer red. Then we pour a liter of water and wait for it to simmer. We add the sliced unripe papayas and chili pepper leaves and leave it to simmer for another 5 minutes and our chicken tinola is now cooked.
It’s a simple one-pot dish that will give you a savory chicken soup and tender chicken. This tastes perfect with rice any time of the day. It is perfect now because we are having cold rainy days.