Boiled Chicken and Vegetable Soup (Nilagang Manok)
In the Philippines, nilagang manok is comfort food. In this boiled chicken and vegetable recipe, cabbage, potatoes, squash, sweet corn and sweet potatoes are cooked with a chopped up whole chicken.
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Originally envisioned as a food and travel blog with focus on travel-inspired recipes, culinary travel ground to a halt in 2020. But that doesn’t mean we can’t continue to enjoy and share our love for Asian food through home cooked dishes.
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Root Vegetables Grow Underground
If you’ve only encountered potato in the form of French fries and chips, it might surprise you to know that it grows underground as do other root vegetables.
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Almusal: Breakfast in the Philippines
Carbs. Filipino breakfast is rich in carbs. Rice, mostly. Historically, bread came later. Read about silog (fried rice and egg), lugaw (rice congee), pandesal (Filipino bread) and the evolving breakfast habits of Filipinos.