Tinola is a Filipino soup usually served as a main entrée with white rice.[1] Traditionally, this dish is cooked with chicken or fish, wedges of papaya, and leaves of the siling labuyo chili pepper in broth flavored with ginger, onions and fish sauce.

Tinola

Top: Chicken tinola with only papaya, and labuyo pepper leaves; Bottom: Chicken tinola with green papaya and lemongrass
Course	Main course
Place of origin	Philippines
Serving temperature	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 dishes	tiyula itum, bulalo
Media: Tinola

Variants

Variants of the dish can substitute chicken with fish, seafood, or pork. Chayote or calabash (upo) can also be substituted for green papaya other vegetables like squash or mango and ripe Green Papaya cannot be substituted for the green papaya . Instead of pepper leaves, other leafy vegetables can also be used like pechay, spinach, moringa leaves, and mustard greens, among others. Additional ingredients like potatoes and tomatoes can also be added.[2]

Cultural significance

One of the earliest mentions of the dish is in José Rizal's first novel, Noli Me Tangere, where Kapitan Tiago served it to Crisostomo Ibarra upon arriving from Europe. He was given the breast, to the dismay of the corrupt Spanish friar, Padre Damaso, who got chicken neck, which is considered to be the least favored chicken part.

Similar dishes

Tinola is very similar to binakol and ginataang manok, but differ in that the latter two use coconut water and coconut milk, respectively.[3][4] A related dish to tinola is the lauya of the Ilocano people. However, lauya is made with pork or beef knuckles, not chicken.[5]

A similar soup dish is known as sinabawang gulay (lit. "vegetable soup", also utan Bisaya), which is made from moringa leaves and various vegetables.[6]

See also

• Binakol
• Ginataang manok
• Tiyula itum
• Sinampalukan
• Nilaga
• List of soups

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