Cabatuan’s Tinuom: Truly, an authentic Ilonggo dish
Posted by on November 28, 2009
Eating plays a major part in every Pinoy’s life. And being an archipelago, it is not a surprise to see how diverse our culinary fares are. We get to see an exciting mix of foods from the North that is not popular or doesn’t even exist in the south.
Among the local foods that that I recently tried from the Province of iloilo is Tinuom. Tinuom is a chicken soup which originally came from the town of Cabatuan in Central Iloilo.
Tinuom is made using native chicken, sliced onions, ginger, tomatoes, and tanglad (lemongrass). It is then wrapped in banana leaves and cooked in seasoned water inside a clay pot.
It is really exciting to open a freshly cooked Tinuom as the steam oozes out of the banana leaves. And its taste? Yummy. Masarap ilagay sa kanin ang sabaw! So when you dropped by the town of cabatuan, dont forget to order a serving of Tinu-om!
