Chicken Rice Porridge

This dish is Filipino comfort food, one your mom or auntie might prepare to cure a cold. As Islas contributor Jenn de la Vega says, for Filipinos, this is like chicken or matzo ball soup. Translated, arroz caldo means “brothy rice,” and while the term is a nod to the country’s history of Spanish colonization, it’s been adapted with island techniques and flavors, like many other recipes in this book.