Filipino style chicken cooked with soya sauce, vinegar, garlic and pepper. An easy peasy recipe that can be prepared with very minimal ingredients. You can either make a dry adobo or a gravy. A great side dish with white rice.
Chicken Adobo - Filipino style
Filipino style chicken cooked with soya sauce, vinegar, garlic and pepper. This is an easy peasy recipe which can be prepared with very minimal ingredients.
Ingredients
- 500 grams chicken
Marination
- 2 tbsps soya sauce
- 3 tbsps vinegar
- 1 tablespoon pepper powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon garlic (crushed)
- 2 numbers bay leaves
- 1 pinch sugar
Gravy
- 2 tbsps corn starch (optional)
- vegetable oil
Instructions
- Mix the ingredients listed under marination - soy sauce, vinegar, pepper, salt, garlic, sugar and bay leaves in a pan.
- You can use either chicken with bone (preferably small pieces) or boneless chicken for this recipe. Add chicken into the pan and toss the chicken pieces in the mixture. Once the chicken is well coated, remove the rest of the sauce from the pan and reserve it.
- Cover the chicken and allow it to marinate in the fridge for at least 30 minutes (over night is preferred).
- When it’s ready to cook, cover it and lower the heat. The chicken itself has water in it, don't add any extra water at this point. Simmer it for 20 minutes or until the chicken is cooked and dried up.
- Add 1 tablespoon oil at this moment and lightly brown the chicken.
- Spoon the reserved sauce over the chicken. You can either make a dry adobo or a gravy. If you prefer a dry one, simmer it longer until the sauce has been absorbed by the chicken. Else, if you are looking for gravy, add corn starch and 1 or 2 tablespoon water for richer gravy. Mix it well and boil till the gravy is up to the consistency desired. I made a gravy out of it.
- Turn off the heat. Serve with hot rice. Enjoy!
Nutrition
Serving: 162gCalories: 159kcalCarbohydrates: 6gProtein: 12gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 45mgSodium: 837mgPotassium: 158mgFiber: 1gSugar: 0.4gVitamin A: 123IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 22mgIron: 1mg
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I loved the recipe.Hope mine turns out to be as good as it looks here.Fingers crossed.
Jane.. Whenever I add water to make it with bit gravy I start losing the flavour of spices
In this recipe, if you feel like losing the flavor, you can add soya sauce, vinegar and pepper at the end too. Be careful while adding those especially soya sauce. To make the gravy thicker, add corn flour.
My aspiring Chef of a young nephew and I made the recipe, with a few tweaks. We added green seasoning (a sofrito of sorts) to the marinade. Allowed the Chicken and Marinade to sit overnight, browned the Chicken, afterwards we added the marinade back to the sauteed chicken. Allowed the Dish to simmer. We prepared rice, and cheese broccoli. The dish was tremendously delicious.**