🥥 Chicken Binakol

Soup · Main ingredient: Chicken · ⏱ 32 min · Serves 5 · ~₱315 · Best for: Dinner, Lunch

Ingredients

• 1 kg Chicken, cut into serving pieces
• 4 cups Fresh buko (young coconut) water
• 1 cup Young coconut meat, strips
• 1 thumb Ginger, sliced into strips
• 1 pc Onion, sliced
• 4 cloves Garlic, minced
• 2 tbsp Fish sauce
• 2 cups Malunggay leaves or chili leaves (dahon ng sili)
• 1.5 pcs Green chili (siling pangsigang)
• 2 tbsp Cooking oil
• 3 pinch Salt, to taste
• 0.5 tsp Pepper, to taste

Instructions

1. Heat oil in a pot and sauté ginger, onion, and garlic until fragrant.
2. Add chicken pieces and cook until lightly browned.
3. Pour in fish sauce and coconut water, and bring to a boil.
4. Lower heat and simmer for 20-25 minutes until chicken is tender, skimming off scum as needed.
5. Add young coconut meat strips and green chili, and simmer for 5 minutes.
6. Add malunggay or chili leaves and cook for 1-2 minutes more.
7. Season with salt and pepper to taste, and serve hot as a soup with rice.

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