Arroz Caldo – Ultimate comfort food for Filipinos. This is great anytime of the day- as a snack; as a hot meal to conclude a night of heavy drinking so as to sober up; or as a cure for a hangover the following day. Also works as a soothing cure when suffering from a fever coupled with a sore throat.
Here is another version of Arroz Caldo. Remember that it absorbs a lot of water so prepare a lot of chicken stock ahead of time. It may also dry up when you keep it in the ref so be sure to have some chicken stock handy should you need to zap it in the oven in the future.
Arroz Caldo Recipe
Ingredients:
- about 500 grams of chicken parts. A quarter of a chicken will do. You’ll shred it later anyway.
- half a cup of glutinous rice, rinsed
- a cup of plain rice, rinsed too
- 8 cups of water
- ginger root cut into strips
- an onion, quartered
- minced garlic, 3 tablespoons
- cooking oil
- salt and pepper
- patis or fish sauce
- chopped spring onions for topping
- chicken broth cubes
- kasuba or pinoy saffron (not the expensive kind. This is mainly used to give the dish its yellow color)
Cooking Instructions:
- In a big pot, combine the chicken parts, water, onion and a broth cube. Once it boils, let it simmer by lowering the flame until tender. Take out the chicken parts and shred. Needless to say, set the stock aside for later.
- In another pot, saute garlic until golden brown and use a spoon to scoop it out leaving the oil. Set this aside as this will be used as topping later.
- In that same pot with the oil, add the onions and ginger root and saute until the onions are transparent in color. Add the kasuba. Finally, add both glutinous rice and plain rice then saute for 5 minutes. Pour in the chicken stock and let it boil while stirring occasionally. Lower the heat and let simmer.
- Season with salt, pepper, patis according to your taste. Remember that you used some chicken cubes here so it already has a degree of saltiness to it. Finally, add the shredded chicken and keep cooking until the rice is cooked and the broth is thick in consistency.
- Keep in mind that the stock could dry up so be prepared. All you need to do is microwave 2 cups of water and dissolve a chicken broth cube in it. I hope you won’t need more than that.
- Serve your arroz caldo in a bowl and top it with chopped spring onions and lots of garlic. Don’t burn your tongue, now.
Looking for other Lutong Pinoy Recipes to try on? Feel free to check out our pork recipes, chicken recipes and desserts.
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