A national favorite in the Philippines. This dish is a sour soup with a medley of hearty vegetables and choice of chicken, or pork. The sourness is based on extracting the juice of tamarinds. Seasoned with fish sauce, this is the perfect soup for a rainy day. Or sunny.
This is a new way of preparing "inihaw na isda" or grilled fish. Back home you will have street vendors roasting lechon pig, chicken and fish. This dish is an homage to those flavors.
A consumme is a clear soup that is drank out of a glass. By making this soup clear and concentrating the aroma in a wine glass, accentuates the smells like that of a bulaluhan restaurant.
This is certainly a Spanish influenced dish. Chocolate is not commonly used in Philippine cooking. In Mexico, Champorado is a chocolate drink. So this dish has evolved from Spanish origins using local Philippine ingredients.
