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Tinola

A Filipino soup with chicken, papaya, and ginger broth.

Tinola is a Filipino soup, often eaten as a main dish with rice. It typically features chicken or fish, green papaya or chayote, and chili pepper leaves in a ginger, onion, and fish sauce broth. This dish appears in José Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere, where it was served to a returning traveler.

Quick Facts

Country
The Philippines
Course
Main course
Served
Hot
Main ingredients
  • Chicken
  • green papaya
  • siling labuyo leaves
  • ginger
  • onion
  • fish sauce
Variations
  • Pork with chayote and moringa
  • Fish with tomatoes
  • Nilarang/Linarang (Cebuano variant)
Similar dish
Tiyula itum, bulalo

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