Frog tastes like a chicken. You heard that before? Yes! it is true, frog is really tastes like a chicken. I remember from my childhood when my cousin caught "palakang bukid" (a variety of edible frog) from rice field during the planting season. I requested to my mom that I will take a lunch or dinner to kuya Onad (my cousin) house when I heard that he caught a frogs, co'z for sure they served any palakang bukid dishes in their table.
The tasty and nutritious edible frogs, even though not generally considered or accepted as major food item worldwide, are consumed in thousands of tons annually in several countries like France in Europe and in Asia like China, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and of course in Philippines. Although not really popular as table fare throughout the Philippines, it is widely caught during its season and especially served as viand in Central Luzon areas and “pulutan” or bites or appetizer over a bottle of favorite beer, wine or hard liquor elsewhere in other provinces.
The Kapampangan have specialty recipe in palakang bukid they called it "Batute" (a stuffed frog) and normally available in every Kapampangan restaurant in the country.
In this tinola recipe, I make a twist instead of papaya or sayote I used upo (white pumpkin) and add tomatoes to extract a little sourness of the soup that add the flavor of the dish.
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