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Chicken Adobo
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Chicken Adobo ingredients: | |
2 lb | chicken pieces, cut up or whole |
1 head | garlic, coarsely chopped (yes, an entire head!) |
4 Tbsp | soy sauce, (or more to taste) |
1 tsp | ground black pepper |
2 cups | water |
1/2 cup | vinegar, (rice vinegar or white wine vinegar work best) |
2 | bay leaves |
2 Tbsp | cooking oil |
The step by step cooking process:
Put vinegar, bay leaves, pepper, soy sauce, and water in a saucepan. Cover and cook slowly about 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, heat the cooking oil in a large, heavy-bottomed frying pan. Peel the garlic, break the cloves into chunks, and brown them over medium-low heat (about 5 minutes).
Add the chicken to the frypan and brown it over medium-high heat (about 5 minutes).
Add the broth to the frypan and simmer, partly covered, until the chicken is done (about 30 minutes). Do not let it come to a boil.
Remove the bay leaves and serve over rice.
You can substitute pork for the chicken, or mix the two. Here in the Philippines, it is the custom to marinade the meat for two days rather before simmering.
To marinate the chicken, mix in the broth and 3 of the garlic cloves after step 1, then put the chicken in a glass dish and pour the marinade over it.
Adobo is the most unique national dish of the Philippines. Most warm-weather countries have through the centuries developed recipes that preserve food while flavoring it. This dish is different than many because of its strong component of vinegar. It is at once sour, salty, and drenched in garlic.
Thus, the recipe is very well known in many countries. This Filipino recipe of chicken adobo is just the very basic and simple step. As time goes by, many varieties, ingredients and style are being added to the original recipe to add some flavor.
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