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This is my ultimate comfort food paired with steamed rice. And is the easiest Filipino dish to make mainly because it has only two ingredients: chicken and salt, making it easy on the budget as well.I made it for last night’s dinner.
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Pinaupong Manok or Sitting Chicken is named as such because it is made to sit on a bed of salt. It is then cooked on a very low fire. The salt then draws out the chicken’s oil and juices and is cooked on the steam that it generates giving the chicken a very natural flavor.
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This is served with a dunking/dipping sauce made with soy sauce and calamansi. You can also add siling labuyo/chili pepper to make it spicy. The chicken drippings is also very tasty and is perfect over steaming hot rice.
PrintPinaupong Manok (Sitting Chicken)
- Author: The Peach Kitchen
Ingredients
Scale
- 5 tbsp Rock Salt
- 1 whole Chicken
for the dipping sauce:
- 5 tbsp soy sauce
- juice of 3 calamansi
Instructions
- Rub the skin of the chicken with rock salt.
- Put whatever rock salt is left at the bottom of the pot.
- Put chicken inside the pot.
- Cook in a very slow fire for around 45 minutes.
- Serve with the mixture of soy sauce and calamansi as dipping sauce.
7 Responses
wow! paano ba iyan gawin?sobrang interested ako gumawa nito, let me know naman..please…….:)
I like the shot of chicken sitting inside a deep pot 🙂
wwow!!ang sarap naman ng pinaupong chicken mo!! na-mimiss ko na rin ang pinoy sawsawan!walang calamansi dito(T_T)
how about the water? paano ba ito,parang steam or something?
i bet this is native chicken? tama ba? by the looks of its wings o..hehehe…hahaizz..i think i can eat a whole lot when i get back home..(drooling)
I would like to try this using a crockpot!
I just chose a whole chicken from my freezer to see which one fits the slowcooker. Maybe I can cook it tomorrow!
Thanks!