Chicken tinola is chicken with papaya soup. Chicken boiled with papaya and ginger for spice.

2 tbs cooking oil
5 cloves garlic, crushed
1 onion chopped
1 thumb-sized ginger, cut into strips
1 medium-sized chicken
6 cups water
4 tbs fish sauce
1 small green papaya or bottle gourd, cut into serving pieces
1/2 cup young pepper leaves

Clean and cut chicken into serving pieces. Set aside. Saute garlic in cooking oil until brown. Add onion and ginger. Cook until soft. Add chicken pieces and season with fish sauce. Simmer for five minutes. Pour water and allow to boil until chicken is cooked. Add papaya and cook until tender. Add pepper leaves. Remove from fire and serve with rice.