A traditional soup dish of Western Visayas, chicken binakol, is a simple chicken soup made special by the addition of coconut water and coconut meat. Thus the broth has sweetness into it yet still savoury because of the chicken and other ingredients. Moreso, if one uses free range chicken or Bisaya as the locals call these organic fowls. It also adds more native flavour if cooking is done the traditional way, that is all the ingredients are placed inside a cleaned bamboo, covered and placed on fire. The natural juices of the bamboo adds some more uniqueness to the dish. So, how about some chicken binakol ...
K.B.L. or Kadyos, Baboy, Langka is the ultimate favorite dish of most Ilonggos. It is also one of the most missed native dishes as kadyos and the souring ingredient, batwan , are hard to find when outside of the Ilonggo region. Basically, it is boiled/stewed pork dish owing its "deliciousness" to the combination of the soft and tender pork, the tamed sourness of batwan and the malinamnam na sabaw . One of the "secrets" of the malinamnamn na sabaw , is the fact that the pork, whether just the plain meat or pata (hocks) are first grilled or broiled. This gives the broth a rather smoky taste that makes it more appetizing.. Learn how to make the Ilonggo dish KBL (Kadyos, Baboy, at Langka) with the recipe below. Ingredients 1 kilo Pata (pork hocks) or pork cubes, GRILLED and sliced into bite size pieces 1 unripe Jack fruit, cubed 2 cups pigeon pea (kadyos) 6-8 pieces batwan fruit (or tamarind powder) 1 piece pork broth cube (