Chicken with Kadios and Ubad Recipe

• 1 cup kadios (pigeon pea)
• 6 cups water
• 1 piece chicken, cut into serving pieces 
• 1 piece medium-sized onion, quartered
• 2 pieces ubad (banana tree core), chopped 
• 1 piece barbeque stick
• 1 stalk tanglad (lemon grass), bundled
• salt

Wash kadios in water. Boil it in 2 cups water for 10 minutes to release the scum from the kadios. Put off flame , discard water and wash the kadios again.
 

Boil kadios again in 6 cups water. When water is boiling, add chicken pieces and -onions. Lower flame
until kadios and chicken are tender. To test the kadios, get 1 bean and squeeze between thumb and forefinger if it ,can be crushed. Squeeze rock salt with ubad to remove sap. Put squeezed ubad in a bowl. Twist the end of a barbeque stick in the bowl of ubad to remove the fibers. Continue twisting until all fibers are removed. The ubad makes approximately 2 cups.
 

When chicken and kadios are tender, add the I  I and tanglad. Season with salt. Serve hot.