How to Make Perfect Clam Tinola

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How to Make Perfect Clam Tinola Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Clam Tinola. Manila Clam and Mussel Tinola is a simple Filipino soup composed of no other than mussels and clams. It is cooked using ginger and onion stock (I also used fennel for this recipe to add more flavor to the soup). The soup is finished by adding fresh baby spinach and some red pepper flakes to have a bit of kick to it.

Cleaning the clams might sound easy.

Well, it is, but you have to wait for a while.

Note: Make sure that the clams are already cleansed and the dirt are already flushed out of its shell before proceeding.

You can have Clam Tinola using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Clam Tinola

  1. Prepare of clams brushed.

  2. Prepare of medium yellow onion wedged.

  3. You need of thumbs ginger peeled and sliced.

  4. You need of spinach.

  5. Prepare of red pepper flakes.

  6. You need of oil.

  7. You need of water.

  8. Prepare of Salt.

To do this, pour the clams in a container or basin full of water and let it sit for at least half day to make it (the clams) expel sand.

When you make this dish you should make sure that the clams are thoroughly cleansed and the dirt is already washed out of its shell.

Tinola is traditionally cooked with wedges of unripe papaya and malunggay leaves.

These components make it a good source of nutrients.

Clam Tinola step by step

  1. Heat oil in a cooking pot..

  2. Saute ginger and onion..

  3. Once onion becomes translucent, pour water into the pot. Let boil. Cover and continue to boil in medium heat for 8 minutes. Note: This process will extract the flavor from the onion and ginger..

  4. Add clams. Continue to cook for 5 minutes..

  5. Add spinach, red pepper flakes, and salt. Stir. Cook for 1 minute..

  6. Transfer to a serving bowl..

  7. Serve hot. Share and enjoy!.

The secret in making a good tinola is to simmer the chicken for longer periods of time.

This extracts the flavor from the chicken.

It also makes the chicken tender in the process.

How to Cook Chicken Tinola Fish Tinola is usually eaten with white or brown rice.

You can also have this as an appetizer.