RECIPES OF PHILIPPINES

Nilagang Manok (Chicken and Vegetable Soup)
 

Ingredients

1 kg

1 medium

2 lt

2 medium

4

2 tbsp

1 medium

Whole chicken (cut into serving pieces)
Onion (sliced lengthwise)
Water
Potatoes (peeled and quartered)
Saba (plantain) bananas (each sliced into two pieces)
Patis (fish sauce) (adjust to taste)

Whole cabbage (quartered)
Salt (adjust to taste)

Pepper (adjust to taste)

125 ml

3-4

Patis

Calamansi juice

1. Place chicken and onion in a casserole and pour in the water
2. Bring to the boil, then lower heat to medium and simmer for 20 minutes
3. Add potatoes and, after 5 minutes, the bananas
4. Continue simmering until chicken, potatoes and bananas are tender, about 10 more minutes
5. Season with patis, salt and pepper
6. Add cabbage and cook just until cabbage becomes tender-crisp, about 2 minutes more
7. Serve soup hot with rice and dip

To make Dip, combine patis and calamansi juice in a bowl