Tinolang Tahong is a mussel soup recipe with ginger and spinach. This recipe is inspired by a famous Filipino soup dish called tinolang manok or chicken tinola — which uses chicken, green papaya wedges, and chili pepper leaves. This mussel soup recipe is simple, budget-friendly, and delicious. This is also quick to prepare. It took me only 15 minutes to cook this dish. I like to eat mussels because of its nice flavor. Aside from that, mussels are good for the health: they are excellent source of Selenium, vitamin B12, zinc, and folate.
Try this Tinolang Tahong recipe and let me know what you think.
Tinolang Tahong Recipe
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings 3
Ingredients
- 1 lb. mussels tahong, cleaned
- 2 cups spinach
- 2 tablespoons ginger julienned
- 1 medium yellow onion sliced
- 5 cloves garlic pounded
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 3 cups water
- 2 tablespoons cooking oil
Instructions
- Heat a cooking pot and pour-in cooking oil.
- Saute garlic and onion.
- Add ginger and mussels, and then cook for a minute.
- Pour-in water. let boil.
- Add salt and pepper. Stir and cook for 8 to 10 minutes.
- Put-in the spinach. Turn the heat off and cover the pot.
- Allow the residual heat to cook the spinach.
- Transfer to a serving plate.
- Serve. Share and enjoy.
Nutrition
Serving: 3g
Merfy says
I thought you can put tomatoes in it?
Vanjo Merano says
Hi Merfy, I don’t add tomatoes on Tinola dishes, but you can always do as you please. This recipe is just a suggestion, feel free to tweak it to your liking. It will also be great if you can give us your feedback later about your version. Thanks in advance.
Lory says
More power, ist really delecious, but i used Chili leaves in my garden..
and thank you you have this side..