Chicken Tinola

Ingredients:

2 tbsp. cooking oil
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1 tsp. ginger, cut in strips
1/2 cup onion, chopped
1 stewing chicken weighing 1 kg. cut into serving pieces
1 tbsp. fish sauce
10 cups rice water
1 small green papaya, sliced into serving pieces
1 cup sili leaves ( pepper leaves )
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. mono sodium glutamate

Procedure:

Fry the garlic in hot cooking oil until brown. Add the ginger and chopped onions. Cook until soft. Drop in pieces of chicken. Season with fish sauce. Cover and let simmer for 5 minutes. Add the rice water, simmer until chicken is tender. Add the sliced papaya and cook until papaya is tender. Just before removing from the fire, season with salt and mono sodium glutamate. Add the pepper leaves. Serve hot. Serves 8.