Tanglad - Lemon Grass

Tanglad

Tangead - Aklanon

The best use of tanglad I have ever tasted is in tinolang manok. A whole piece of the tanglad plant is added to the stew, to take out the chicken smell and add a nice citrusy flavor. Another wonderful Filipino dish that uses tanglad is binakoe (Aklanon) or binakul (Tagalog). This is a type of cooking that uses green bamboo; the food (usually chicken) is put inside the young bamboo and then the whole bamboo is put into the fire. Chicken soup with tanglad cooked like this is heavenly.



Chicken Binakul


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