Chicken Tinola with Zucchini

Here is another ingredient you can add when you want to cook Chicken Tinola.  This time it is not the usual Chicken Tinola with Papaya and Malunggay Leaves, I replaced Green Papaya and Malunggay Leaves with Zucchini.  (Here is a link to learn more about Zucchinis).

Here are the Ingredients:

* 1 chicken (1/2 Kg) 

* 5 pieces of Zucchini, these are the light green ones 

* 1 medium onion cut in slice 

* 4 cloves garlic, crushed 

* 2 tbsp. ginger strips 

* 2 tbsp. of Fish Sauce

* 2 green chili's, these are not that hot though

* Few leaves of Onion leaves (a personal favorite) 

Cooking Procedures: 

- Clean and cut chicken into small serving pieces. 

- Saute' garlic and ginger until light brown. Add onion. 

- Then, add chicken. Stir for 3 minutes or until it's almost tender, pour in the fish sauce.    Cook for another 3 minutes. Cover and let simmer. 

- When chicken is almost cooked, add Zucchini and Chili's. 

- Cover and simmer until chicken it's cooked. 

- Lastly, turn the cooker off then add Onion leaves.  You do not want the onion leaves to be very soft.



Voila!  It is ready to serve.



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Pork Ribs Soup with Bok Choy

As an overseas Filipino worker I always look for a recipe that is easy to cook and don't require too much time, and one of the important things I consider is the ingredients where I can easily buy from the market.  Except for the Pork Ribs which is fortunately available in Dubai (Spinneys Market).  If Pork Ribs is not available in your country (most of the countries Middle East), then you can use Beef Ribs instead.  Although, Beef require longer time to tenderize.



If you follow the following cooking instruction, even a newbie can cook this easily.  

These are the ingredients that I've used for this dish:

1/4 Kilo of Pork Ribs

1 medium size onion

Water

Fish Sauce ( I used 2 tbsps for this recipe)

Salt and Freshly grind Pepper

1 medium Chopped Tomatoes

handful of Bok Chor (Petchay)

2 not so hot Chillis



How I cooked it:



1.  Put about 3 cups of water and boil.  When it's boiling, add the pork and let it simmer until it's tender.

2.  When pork is tender, add the tomatoes, onions and 2 tbsps of fish sauce.

3.  Check the tomatoes if they are completely peeled, add salt and pepper

(This is how it looks like when you should put the Bok Choy in)

4.  Then finally, put the Bok Choy and Chillis and cover, and in a minute it's ready to serve.

(Fresh Bok Choy or Pechay)

Please note that cooking depends on your taste buds.



Happy cooking!



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