Halang-Halang
July 28, 2003
Filed under Chicken recipes, Filipino food, Soup recipes, Vegetable recipes
Ingredients :
1 whole chicken (about 1 k.), cut into serving pieces
3 chayote, skinned, cored and cut into wedges the same size as the chicken pieces
1 head of garlic, finely minced
1 thumb-sized piece of ginger, sliced
1 onion, halved then sliced thinly
1 tbsp. of cooking oil
2 c. of kakang-gata (coconut cream)
1 siling haba (hot chili, big variety), optional
a handful of sili leaves
water
patis (fish sauce)
Cooking procedure :
Heat a large saucepan or casserole. Pour in the cooking oil and heat until smoking. Add the chicken pieces and cook over high heat for a few minutes. Add the garlic, ginger, onion slices and siling haba. Season with 4 tbsp. of patis. Cook, stirring, until the onion slices are soft. Pour in a cup of water. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer for 15 minutes. Add the chayote wedges and continue simmering for another 15 minutes. Pour in the coconut cream. Add more patis, is necessary. Bring to a soft boil then turn off the heat. Place the sili leaves on top, cover and leave for the flavors to infuse for 5 minutes. Serve hot.
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Hi! Halang-halang in the visayan dialect is translated as anghang-anghang in pilipino. This is a delicious dish. Here, we sometimes add a little kasubha or ashuete or very little soy sauce to add a little color to the dish.
the dish is called halang halang because of the chili that is added to it. at least, in the visayas that’s how it’s done. it’s a coconutty and very spicy dish.
btw, I like the Comment Previews just below the comment field.
Hi Cristal and Gelo. so… halang means spicy. Thanks for the info.
hi everyone! halang-halang in bisaya is different coz we are using beef with sooo spicy soup:lol:
in cebuano halang means hot or spicy..yup we use beef for our halang2x version here..
Hi Guys,
I went home to Davao and has tasted Halang-Halang Dish. Yes! They used beef and was absolutely delicious and was very very spicy. I am in the process of cooking it now but don’t know the real engredients to this. Please help me make my Halang Halang Beef visayan version. It became my favorite dish now and would like to master it.
Sincerely,
Marilyn
i’m currently based in Cebu and the kind of “halang-halang” i’ve tasted here is basically finely chopped chicken cooked more like adobo and very spicy. they use mostly the back part of the chicken, tinadtad ng pinong-pino, other version i’ve tried medyo malaki ang hiwa ng chicken but cooked like adobo lang and no gata… i guess kanya-kanyang version lang yan.
i try to cook this halang-halang at masarap siya ha! lutuin ko ito madalas sa aking kainan…
Halang halang kamo sa akon…hahaha
jowk!
I tried cooking the halang halang but I don not know to cook it..It taste like a Spicy tinolang manok.. honestly masarap tlaga sya..Hmmm
hi ms connie,
i would like to try this out, question lang po, do i need to cut the siling haba into slices o no need na? thanks po
Hindi na, Anna.
thanks ms connie, will try this out. sawa na kami sa tinola.
thanks again!