Nilaga: Philippine ‘Stone Soup’
Are you familiar with the story of the “stone soup”? As the story goes, a traveler starts a pot of soup using just water and a stone. Villagers add to the pot whatever they have on hand. A delicious and nourishing pot of soup is the end result.
While nilaga (literally: “boiled”) doesn’t have a single stone in it, except perhaps by accident, it is also easily made with ingredients that are on hand. It’s practically a no-fail soup. The amounts of all the ingredients can be modified to taste and availability.
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