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Chicken Papaya Soup

Saif Al Deen Odeh
Chicken Papaya is a Filipino soup dish mixed with green papaya and spinach. The broth is seasoned with ginger, garlic, fish sauce and chicken cube.
4.73 from 29 votes
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Course Poultry and Chicken Recipes
Cuisine Asian, Filipino
Servings 5
Calories 298 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 6 pieces of chicken
  • 80 gram of fresh spinach
  • 1 medium papaya
  • 1 cup chopped red onion
  • 3 cloves of garlic
  • 1 thumb size of ginger
  • 1 chicken bouillon cubes
  • 2 tablespoon of fish sauce
  • 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil
  • 4 to 5 cup of water

Instructions
 

  • Add vegetable oil to a cooking pot in medium heat. Once hot, add ginger and chopped garlic. Stir for a minute.
  • Add chopped red onion. Give a quick stir till it turns transparent.
  • Add chicken and stir to mix for 5 minutes before pouring water
  • Once it started to boil, add fish sauce and chicken bouillon cubes.
  • Lower to fire to low heat to let it simmer for 20 minutes. Make sure you cover the pot with the lid to let it cook faster.
  • Add green papaya in the pot, and let simmer for 3 minutes
  • Add the spinach, and let it simmer for additional 2 minutes before turning off the fire. Do not remove the lid of the pan since the steam will help continue cooking the vegetables.

Notes

If you are using chicken broth, do not use fish sauce or bouillon cube.
If you don't like spinach, you can add pechay (Chinese cabbage) or moringa leaves (malunggay)

Nutrition

Serving: 1gCalories: 298kcalCarbohydrates: 11gProtein: 26gFat: 15gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 9gCholesterol: 61mgSodium: 692mgFiber: 2gSugar: 5g
Keyword Chicken Papaya, Chicken Papaya Soup, Tinolang Manok
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