Chicken Arroz Caldo

4.80 (94)
⏱ 40 mins 🍽 Serves 5 🌶 filipino 🏷 Breakfast

Arroz caldo is a classic Filipino breakfast soup, offering deep comfort with its rich chicken broth. Chicken wings and glutinous sweet rice are simmered with a base of sautéed onion, garlic and ginger, then seasoned with fish sauce. The finished dish is garnished with fresh green onion and served with lemon slices for a bright, tangy finish. It's a hearty and aromatic meal that is both simple to prepare and deeply satisfying.

Chicken Arroz Caldo

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 1 (2 inch) piece fresh ginger, peeled and thinly sliced
  • 2.25 pounds chicken wings, split and tips discarded
  • 1 tablespoon fish sauce
  • 5.25 cups chicken broth
  • 1 cup glutinous sweet rice
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 green onion, chopped
  • 1 lemon, sliced
  • 1 teaspoon fish sauce for sprinkling, if desired

Method

  1. Prepare all of your ingredients.
  2. Warm the olive oil in a large pot. Add the diced onion, crushed garlic and sliced ginger, cooking and stirring them for about 5 minutes until aromatic.
  3. Introduce the chicken wings to the pot and cook for 1 minute, stirring. Mix in the fish sauce, cover the pot, and continue cooking for a further 2 minutes.
  4. Add the chicken broth to the pot. Stir through the glutinous sweet rice and bring everything to a boil. Cover and cook for 10 minutes, giving an occasional stir to stop the rice sticking.
  5. Taste and adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper. Ladle the soup into individual bowls and top with chopped green onion.
  6. Present each bowl with lemon slices on the side, offering extra fish sauce for sprinkling according to preference.

Nutrition (per serving)

Calories294 kcal
Fat15 g
Sugars4 g
Protein16 g
Sodium1586 mg

Recipe details

CategoryBreakfast
Cuisinefilipino
Authorlola