Tinolang Tahong

Ingredients

• 1 lb mussels (tahong), cleaned
• 2 cups spinach or young leaves of chilli
• 2 tablespoons ginger, julienned
• 1 medium onion, sliced
• 6 cloves garlic, pounded
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 3 cups water
• 2 tablespoons cooking oil

Cooking Procedure

1. Heat a cooking pot and pour-in cooking oil.
2. Saute garlic and onion.
3. Add ginger and mussels, and then cook for a minute.
4. Add water and let it boil.
5. Add salt and pepper.
6. Stir , cover and leave for 10 minutes.
7. Add the spinach.
8. Turn the heat off and cover the pot, leave for a minute or two, allowing the spinach to cook from the hot temperature from within the cover pan.
9. Transfer to a serving plate.
10. Serve with boiled/steamed rice.