Filipino Recipes

 » Tinolang Manok or Nilagang Manok

Tinolang Manok or Nilagang Manok

Filipino Tinolang Manok

Tinolang Manok and some called them Nilagang Manok is another filipino food dish that I usually cook here in Canada. Tinolang manok recipe is also one of the filipino recipe that is easy to cook. But as a first time immigrant in Canada, buying filipino ingredients like papaya, sayote, chili leaves or malunggay is hard to find specially if you are staying in the rural areas where Asian store is hard to find.

But as you got familiar with the place you live in and knowing the nearby cities, acquiring this hard to find ingredients is not that difficult anymore, as I have taught before. Here, in Orangeville, Ontario, the nearest Asian store is located in Brampton, an hour drive with an average speed of 80km/hr, we have travel that far just to buy filipino food ingredients. Sometimes looking for substitute for the ingredient is another best option in cooking Filipino dish like instead of chili leaves I’ve substitute them with spinach for they are abundant here.

Cooking your favorite dish from a different country is challenging but enjoyable, especially when you are with your love ones. Enjoy and Happy Cooking!

 

Ingredients :

  • 1 lb. chicken, cut into serving pieces (or any choice cuts of your liking like thighs, drumsticks or wings)
  • 1 thumb-sized fresh ginger root, cut into strips
  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 2 tbsp. patis (fish sauce)
  • salt, to taste
  • 4 to 5 cups water (or rice water – 2nd washing)
  • 2 to 3 sayote (chayote squash), quartered (or green, unripe papaya or potatoes)
  • 1 cup sili (chili) leaves or malunggay or substitute 1/2 lb. spinach
  • vegetable oil
(Kitchen Conversion)

Cooking Procedures :

  1. In a medium saucepan, heat oil over medium heat. Sauté ginger and garlic until fragrant. Add onions, stir-fry until softened and translucent.
  2. Add chicken cuts. Cook for 3 to 5 minutes until chicken colors slightly. Season with patis and salt.
  3. Pour in water (or rice water, if using). Bring to a boil. Lower the heat and let it simmer until chicken is half-done. Add in chayote (or papaya or potatoes, if using). Continue simmering until chicken and vegetable are tender. Correct seasonings and then addsili leaves or malunggay or substitute. Stir to combine until well blended. Remove from heat.
  4. Let stand for a few minutes to cook the green vegetables. Transfer to a serving dish and serve hot.

Check other Chicken Recipe:

My Recipe Rating is 4.9 out of 5 stars: with 36 comment review(s)

Check Out More

Pinoy Food Recipe


Have You Tried These Other Filipino Recipes ?

This Embutido recipe is a Filipino Style of Meatloaf. This filipino dish is well known in every filipino table during holidays and special occassion. Embutido is one of my husbands favorite filipino food and whenever I cook this dish, he can consume the whole wrap in a single meal alone. My children also loves embutido especially the portion where the hard-boilded eggs and sausages are located. My husband usually help me in preparin[...]

Ingredients : 1 head repolyo (cabbage) 2 tbsp. oil 1/2 lb. pork, sliced 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 onion, sliced 2 tomatoes, chopped 1/4 cup shrimps, shelled and deveined (optional) 1 cup vegetable broth (or water) salt and pepper, to taste Cooking Procedures : Wash cabbage well. Drain and sliced. Set aside. In a pan, heat oil. Stir-fry pork for about 3-5 minutes or until the color is no longer pink. Add garlic, onions and tomatoes. [...]

Fried chicken is a dish consisting of chicken pieces that is cut up then dipped in a breaded mixture,  dredged with flour, or battered and then pressure cooked, deep fried or pan-fried until it turns to golden brown. There are many variations in cooking a perfect fried chicken. And one of them is by removing the skin before battering while others fry the chicken with either in butter, in special oils and even some use bacon grease [...]

Ingredients : 2 eggs 2 tbsp. milk salt and pepper 1 or 2 tsp. butter (or bacon fat or vegetable oil) Cooking Procedures : Break eggs into bowl. Add milk and season with salt and pepper. Beat with fork. In a small heavy skillet, melt butter (or heat bacon fat or vegetable oil) over medium-low heat. Tip pan so bottom of pan is completely greased with fat. Pour in egg mixture. Using rubber spatula, stir to create curds, and pushing the[...]

Ingredients : 1/4 lb. ground pork 1/4 lb. ground beef 4 cloves garlic, minced 2 onions, chopped 1 tsp. oregano 1/4 cup sugar salt and pepper, to taste 2 to 4 hotdogs (wieners), sliced 1 can tomato sauce 1 can tomato paste 1 cup spaghetti water cornstarch, to thicken (optional) 1/2 lb. spaghetti grated cheese (of your choice), for toppings Cooking Procedures : Boil spaghetti according to package instructions. Reserve a cup of water. [...]

36 Responses to “Tinolang Manok or Nilagang Manok”

Read below or add a comment...

  1. Manny Datiles says:
    October 18, 2016 at 10:55 am

    Tastes so good and so healthful!
    This is what we should be teaching our future generations to cook to keep them healthy!
    Manny
  2. Ernest says:
    April 16, 2016 at 3:23 am

    I just tried this….it wasn’t easy looking for all the ingredients ,but it was all worth it …..it tasted so good!
    Thanks for sharing your recipe!
  3. jazel says:
    July 19, 2015 at 2:13 am

    thank for the recipe now i know how to cook tinolang manok its so yummy and last saturday thats my assignment
  4. rogelio paras jr says:
    March 7, 2014 at 9:48 pm

    we love tinolang manok its so good
  5. Overseer 2-1 says:
    April 8, 2012 at 9:59 pm

    Thanks for the recipe. Been cooking for myself for weeks because of some circumstances and I found just what to cook today. As said before, Thanks a lot. ^_^
  6. Thess says:
    April 4, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    really yummy, I added more spinach….!
  7. denden says:
    April 2, 2012 at 10:03 pm

    i love to cook tinolang manok it

    i love to cook tinola sometimes nilalagyan ko pa ng union leeks at bell pepper super bango.try nio

    :
  8. joseph says:
    April 1, 2012 at 5:56 am

    lami kau..i miss my papa lu2……….i love my pop…………
  9. Naive Kath says:
    January 30, 2012 at 3:19 am

    AWWWW,, HOPE MARUNONG AQ MAGLUTO,,
  10. janjan says:
    November 27, 2011 at 5:30 am

    thanks! didn’t know cooking tinolang manok would be this easy!
  11. mark says:
    October 1, 2011 at 12:29 am

    salamat…..enjoying rite now
  12. reden says:
    September 18, 2011 at 7:42 am

    wow sarap… thanks tinolang manok
  13. dave says:
    September 15, 2011 at 3:19 am

    paborito ko ‘to, love to cook and eat tinola!!!!
  14. hai says:
    September 8, 2011 at 7:47 pm

    missing pinoy food trip, thanks for this site it helps alot.
    Tinola manok love it:)
  15. demz says:
    July 12, 2011 at 7:55 pm

    ang galing nang tinola, tnx,
  16. thel says:
    July 1, 2011 at 7:41 pm

    ayos kakaluto ko lang thanks sa recipe! =)
  17. Pen says:
    May 31, 2011 at 6:04 am

    Thank you for tinolang manonk 😀
  18. renzo says:
    May 29, 2011 at 9:37 pm

    salamat sa recipe. love tinola. 🙂
  19. Cel says:
    April 14, 2011 at 10:26 am

    i love tinolang manok. thanks sa recipe. nag-add lang ako ng mas madaming ginger, mas naging malasa sya. Thank you. 🙂
  20. ana says:
    March 17, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    thank you for this website…, i will try to cook filipino tinolang manok tomorrow for almost 7 years staying here in the foreign country, thanks…
  21. meridhel says:
    February 17, 2011 at 6:34 am

    tnx for tinolang manok
  22. Sky says:
    February 9, 2011 at 8:11 am

    thank you 🙂
  23. Saronova says:
    January 27, 2011 at 12:31 pm

    Aloha, Papaya grows here in Hawaii and so does malungay. In fact these two trees grow like weeds here and bear fruit very quickly. So Tinola is very easy to have on these islands.
  24. jackie says:
    January 12, 2011 at 8:57 pm

    buti na lang nakita ko tong site na to. nagluluto ako ng tinola tapos wala pala akong chicken broth or chicken buillion. buti di pa ko nakasaing at ung pinaghugasan na lang ung ginamit ko. thanks.
  25. yen says:
    December 7, 2010 at 7:08 am

    easy to follow and yummy. thanks 🙂
  26. gloria linco torello says:
    December 6, 2010 at 9:39 am

    TINOLA is one of my favorite dishes,,everytime i cook this i put more ginger to sharpen the taste,,yummy!!!!
  27. christine says:
    December 5, 2010 at 4:05 am

    PERFECT !!! please keep the recipes up 🙂 my first time making this and it was so yummy! found all the substitutes at my local grocery store.. plus, hubby loved it so much!!! THANKS FOR THE RECIPE
  28. dana abella says:
    November 19, 2010 at 7:48 am

    good job, Thank for the tinolang Manok Recipe
  29. TMAQ says:
    November 8, 2010 at 8:33 am

    its my first time to cook and i tried to cook this one and it’s very easy to cook with the help of your cooking procedures… i really love the taste, especially i was the one who cook… hahaha… thank you so much!
  30. kim says:
    November 5, 2010 at 6:52 am

    tnx to your help, my first time cooking didn’t go so hard…. ^^,
  31. area says:
    October 27, 2010 at 7:35 am

    tnx very much ur website helps me a lot ..
  32. Me 10 says:
    September 30, 2010 at 3:56 pm

    I also cooked this when I went to the US for a month… My american bf and his mom really love it! I will definitely cook this again when I go back. Madali lang kasi ako nakahanap ng sayote…kaso wala talaga akong maitang “dahon ng sili”. Thanks for giving me an idea na pwede pala ang spinach as a substitute.
  33. Sika says:
    August 12, 2010 at 2:12 am

    Oh wow. Didn’t know sayote was chayote squash. I’m literally eating this right now, minus the sili. Thanks for the info!
  34. Debbie says:
    July 5, 2010 at 6:06 pm

    Thanks for the info re ingredients substitutes. cause i really have a hard time finding filipino ingredients. ive been wanting to cook tinola. ill try to used spinach instead of malunggay.

    Thanks again…
  35. Sheryl says:
    April 25, 2010 at 9:31 am

    I wanna try this tinolang manok one of this day 🙂
  36. Nevada says:
    March 10, 2010 at 11:25 pm

    This was exactly how my mom made it! Super delicious, thanks!

Leave A Comment...

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.