What food are your parents buying when you're sick? Yes, You're right! Its chicken arrozcaldo.
Here in the Philippines, chicken arrozcaldo is one of the food for the sick. I don't know why, but it always have been and will always be at is.
Ingrediens (servings for 5 person)
2 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, diced
2 gloves garlic, crushed
2 inch ginger, thinly sliced
2.2lbs chicken meat
1 tbsp fish sauce
5cups chicken broth
1 cup glutinous rice
Salt and pepper to taste
Green onion, chopped
Lemon or calamansi
Directions
Heat olive oil in pot in medium heat. Cook garlic, onion and ginger until fragrant. Add chicken meat and stir together. Put in fish sauce and let it cook for 2 minutes
Pour chicken broth in the pot then add rice and bring to a boil and let it cook for 10minutes. Stir occasionally so rice wont stick to the pan
Season with salt and pepper.
Garnish with onion spring
Served with calamasi.
You can add hard boiled egg, chili flakes and pepper after cooking. Its up to you how you will like arrozcaldo to looki like.
Hmmm... Is there a special therapeutic effect of this food on the sick?