tinola

plural tinolas

1. PhilippinesuncountableusuallyA Filipino soup traditionally cooked with chicken or fish, wedges of papaya or chayote or both, and leaves of the siling labuyo chili pepper in broth flavored with ginger, onions, and fish sauce, and usually served as a main course with white rice.

   The papayas I allowed to grow for future tinolas and achara.

   2020 September 8, Paulo Alcazaren, “Quarantine gardens”, in The Philippine Star, Manila, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2021

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   It is a gala day for the adult male Filipino. He goes to mass, thence to his dinner of tinola, a soup and a stew of chicken in one, and then to the cock fight.

   1901 December 15, “The Day in the Philippines: There Is a Mass in the Morning, Cock Fighting and Gambling the Rest of the Day”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 54, number 116, St. Louis, Mo., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Sunday Post-Dispatch Magazine” section

   […] Neal, was very sick and debilitated. I asked the kitchen staff to make a chicken tinola with lots of ginger, green papaya, chile, and malunggay leaves; within a few hours Neal was back on his feet.

   2012, Amy Besa, Romy Dorotan, “Chicken Tinola”, in Memories of Philippine Kitchens: Stories and Recipes from Far and Near, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Treasured Family Recipes), page 165, column 3

   While tinola is the Cebuano sinigang, a mildly sour, clear broth fish soup flavored with tomatoes and onions only, nilarang is the way of cooking fish by simmering it with garlic, onions, ginger, and tausi or fermented black soy beans.

   2014 November, Claude Tayag, Mary Ann Quioc, “Tinola at nilarang: Two kinds of fish soup”, in Linamnam: Eating One’s Way Around the Philippines, 2nd edition, Mandaluyong: Anvil Publishing, →ISBN, “Central & Eastern Visayas” section, page 173

   Once, Marikit smelled the enchanting fragrance of tinola from an open window.

   2022, Caris Avendaño Cruz, “The Impossible Bottle”, in Marikit and the Ocean of Stars, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, →ISBN