Recipe: Tasty Famous Chicken Adobo

Famous Chicken Adobo. Pour in vinegar and soy sauce, and season with garlic powder, black pepper, and bay leaf. Add the browned chicken, increase the heat to high, and bring to a boil. Combine the chicken thighs, vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, peppercorns and bay leaves in a large pot.

The acid in the vinegar breaks down the fibers in the chicken, making it very tender. Why is it called adobo? "Adobo" comes from the Spanish word "adobar," which means "marinate." Chicken Adobo is a Filipino chicken recipe that is well loved by many people. The ingredients are chicken, bay leaves, black peppercorn and bay leaves. You can have Famous Chicken Adobo using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Famous Chicken Adobo

1. Prepare of whole chicken cut up.
2. Prepare of soy sauce.
3. Prepare of vinegar.
4. You need of oyster sauce.
5. It's of sprite.
6. Prepare of garlic crushed.
7. Prepare of small onion chopped.
8. Prepare of oil.
9. Prepare of peppercorn.
10. You need of bay leaves (optional).

You can use any parts of the chicken: breasts, thighs, legs or wings. I used chicken thighs for this recipe and yields tender, moist, fall-off-the-bone chicken. The famous Chicken Adobo originated in the Philippines. The dish is prepared using the Inadobo style of cooking.

Famous Chicken Adobo step by step

1. Take a whole chicken and cut it up in serving size pieces.
   
2. Take a large wok or skillet and heat up oil. Add onions and garlic and sauté until brownish. Should take about 3-4 minutes depending on how high your heat is.
   
3. Add chicken and sauté until chicken is fully brown on both sides.
   
4. Add soy sauce, vinegar, and oyster sauce and let it simmer for 8-10 minutes on medium heat.
5. Add sprite, peppercorn and bay leave and let it simmer on low for another 15-20 minutes or until most of the liquids have been absorbed to your desired amount.
6. Best served with white rice. Enjoy!.

It means cooking meat or seafood with vinegar and mostly soy sauce. It is a popular method during the olden days when refrigerators and freezers were not yet available because vinegar helps extend the shelf life of food. [Photographs: Vicky Wasik] Chicken adobo is a classic dish in the cuisine of the Philippines, one that predates any external influence. This version is based on a more modern iteration, using soy sauce to provide savory depth and rice vinegar for adobo's signature acidity. Filipino Chicken Adobo is the national dish of the Philippines and may well become your new favourite Asian chicken dish! Just a few everyday ingredients I can practically guarantee you already have, it's an effortless recipe that yields juicy, tender chicken coated in a sweet savoury glaze with little pops of heat from peppercorns.