Pork Tinola

Pork Tinola is a hearty comforting dish packed with flavor. Great for pork lovers and those looking for a quick stew/soup to make. All you need are pork ribs, cooked with aromatics like ginger, onions and garlic. Adding in some black pepper and fish sauce to taste, some add a cube of pork broth or simply just water to simmer everything till tender, mix in green papaya and malunggay leaves for more fiber and color. Simmer till the leaves have wilted and you’re done!

Pork Tinola Recipe :

Ingredients

• 1 kilo pork ribs
• 2 thumb-sized ginger ( sliced )
• 1 medium onion ( sliced )
• 5 cloves garlic ( minced )
• Black pepper to taste
• Fish sauce to taste
• 1 piece pork broth cube
• 2 cups rice water ( or water )
• 1 large green papaya ( roughly chopped )
• 1 cup malunggay leaves

Steps:

1. Heat oil in a pan. Saute ginger for a few seconds before adding the onions and garlic. Cook till aromatic. Add in the pork ribs, cook until it changes in color.
2. Once browned add black pepper and fish sauce. Saute for a minute before pouring in water and mixing in a pork broth cube. Cover and simmer for 25 – 30 minutes or until the pork is tender.
3. Use a fork to check if the pork is tender enough. Add in the papaya and give it a little stir. Cover for 5 more minutes or till the papaya is cooked. Place in malunggay leaves at simmer for a minute or till the leaves wilt.
4. Serve hot !

How to Cook Pork Tinola?

“What is Tinola ? “Tinola is typically a dish that uses chicken as the main meat. This traditional FIlipino soup is made of chicken, green papaya or sayote, sili ( chili) leaves or green chillies, malunggay leaves, ginger, garlic, onions, fish sauce as it’s salty flavoring stewed all together till the chicken is cooked and the vegetables are tender. This dish is also almost always served with white rice on the side. In deeper historical ways, this dish has been cooked since Jose Rizal’s time in which it was even mentioned in Noli Me Tangere.

How to make this delicious soup? First heat up your aromatics, mainly ginger, onions and garlic. Then add in the cleaned pork ribs. Make sure to ask the butcher to remove the membrane which is the skin that holds all the ribs together. Removing this will help tenderize the meat better and faster. Cook the ribs till it changes into a lighter brown color. Add in some black pepper and fish sauce, and a bit more later once everything has simmered together. Pour in the water with a pork broth cube. Cover and let this simmer for a few minutes or till the pork ribs feel tender, and these are easy enough to be pierced with a fork. Add in some green papaya and give it a good mix before covering and letting it simmer until it’s soft, then finally some malunggay leaves. Mix everything around till the leaves have wilted. Then serve while it’s still hot.

Questions ?

• Pork Tinola Calories

There are around 240 calories per serving.

• Other meats to use ?
  • Aside from this Tinola Pork Ribs Recipe, you can also use other parts of the pork like the pork belly for “Pork Belly Tinola”. And other cuts.
  • Some replace the pork with beef for “Beef Tinola”.
  • You can also give the traditional tinola a meatier twist by creating “Chicken and Pork Tinola”.
  • Some also use fish fillets as a ‘healthier’ alternative. Usually adding in one that’s already descaled and deboned.Use other seafoods such as shrimps peeled or unpeeled.
  • For those who want to take a vegetarian route. Use tofu or remove the meat and just add more of the leafy vegetables.

• Additional pork tinola ingredients

You can find a lot of ‘modernized’ tinola recipes nowadays. From the traditional Chicken tinola to the different meats and parts of the meat as suggested above. But you can also find a lot of people adding their own twist like the “Pork Curry Tinola” which has curry powder or a curry cube added into the soup. Adding different vegetables like potatoes, bok choy, cabbages, mushrooms, seasonings like cumin, paprika, a dash or so of soy sauce, some pepper paste, or any other vegetables or seasonings you’d like to add.

• What to eat with Tinola ?

This dish is usually served with a side of rice. Sometimes served as a side dish with fried fish or fried food.

Other Yummy Comforting Soup Recipes!

• Egg Drop Soup
• Misua Soup with Meatballs ( wheat vermicelli noodles with meatballs )
• Chicken Sotanghon Soup ( chicken and cellophane noodle soup )
• Creamy Kalabasa Soup ( Squash Soup )
• Beefy Tomato Soup
• Cabbage and Pork Soup
• Ginisang Monggo with Dried Alamang ( sauteed mung beans with shrimp paste )

Pork Tinola Resipi: (Tagalog version)

Mga Sangkap :

• 1 kilo pork ribs
• 2 daliri ng luya ( hiniwa )
• 1 sibuyas ( hiniwa )
• 5 butil ng bawang ( tinadtad )
• Pamint panlasa
• Patis panlasa
• 1 piraso pork broth cube
• 2 tasa ng tubig bigas ( o regular na tubig )
• 1 malaking berdeng papaya ( hiniwa ng malalaki )
• 1 tasa dahon ng malunggay

Paano Lutuin :

1. Maginit ng mantika sa kawali. Lutuin ang luya ng ilang segundo bago haluan ng sibuyas at bawang. Ihalo ang pork ribs at lutuin hanggang mag iba ng kulay.
2. Kapag nag kayumanggi na ang mga ito, haluan ng paminta at patis. Lutuin ng isang minuto bago buhusan ng tubig at lagyan ng pork broth cube. Takpan at pakuluin ng 25 – 30 minuto o hanggang lumambot ang pork ribs.
3. Gamit ang tinidor, tusukin ang mga pork ribs para siguradong malambot na ang mga ito. Haluan ng papaya at takpan muli ng 5 minuto o hanggang maluto ang mga gulay. Ihalo ang mga malunggay at haluin hanggang lumanta ang mga ito.
4. Ihanda habang mainit pa !