Sunday, May 29, 2005

Arroz Caldo

Arroz Caldo is a comfort food for me. When I am tired, when I am sick, when I just do not feel right, I think of arroz caldo. Of course, the day I came home one day was just one of those days. I right away thought of cooking arroz caldo.

Once I stepped in, I boiled 8 cups of water, threw the bones and other parts of chicken breasts I always saved from other recipes while I changed into my home clothes. I set the stock aside, separated the bones from the flesh and discarded the bones. I set the meat aside.

Ingredients:

2 tbsp of oil
2 chicken bouillon
1 tsp of minced garlic
1 tsp of finely chopped ginger
1 finely chopped onion
1 cup of uncooked glutinous rice (malagkit)
6 cups of water from the chicken stock
patis to season
5 tsp of finely chopped green onion
calamansi or lemon

In a saucepan, saute the garlic until lightly brown and set aside. On the same pan, saute the garlic and onion. Add the boullion. Add the stock set aside from boiling the meat . Add the rice and the meat. Cover pan and simmer for about 20 minutes making sure that you stir the pot once in a while. Season. Serve in a bowl. Sprinkle with the sauteed garlic and green onions.

Calamansi would help enhance the taste of your arroz caldo. Also, some add boiled quail eggs to theirs.

4 comments:

santi said...

Hi Ting-Aling,
This is also one of my favorite merienda. I also cook this here but it really taste better when you put calamansi instead of lemon.

ting-aling said...

Hi Bugsybee..let me know how it was.

Walang katapat ano Santi?

Schatzli..lots of garlic din

ting-aling said...

summerdream..thanks for the visit. Well, all I can say is you trained him well..cheers!

Jocelyn said...

Thank you for sharing your arroz caldo recipe. This is one of my favorite dish during rainy season. I will definitely try your recipes. Also, just thought i’d share where I get my other recipe of arroz caldo…hope you don’t mind. Here: http://www.myfilipinorecipes.com/poultry/index.html.
Thanks again and have a good day!