Chicken Adobo (Grace, Paris)

This is a classic Filipino dish. Every family has their own slight variation of this recipe. Here’s mine.

INGREDIENTS

• 8 chicken pieces – wings
• 3 pieces dried bay leaves
• ½ cup of soy sauce
• 2 squeezed lemon juice (More or less ¼ cup of lemon juice)
• 1 medium size carrot, cut in large chunks
• 2 medium size potato, cut in large chunks
• 5 cloves garlic crushed
• 1 1/4 cups water
• 3 tablespoons cooking oil
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon whole peppercorn (crushed is fine too)
• Spring onion as garnish (Optional).

STEPS

1. Heat cooking oil in a pan.
2. Pan-fry chicken, until slightly brown
3. Take out the chicken out of the pan, set aside.
4. To the same pan throw 5 cloves of crushed garlic until fragrant (>/< 1 minute)
5. Add the cuts of carrots and potatoes until well done (>/< 3mins)
6. Put back the chicken that was set aside earlier, stir and simmer for a minute.
7. Add dried bay leaves, whole peppercorn, and 1 teaspoon of sugar.
8. Pour-in the lemon juice, ½ cup of soy sauce and 1 ¼ cup of water. Bring to a boil.
9. Serve hot with simple but fragrant rice, Enjoy!

 YIELDS: 4 servings

By: Grace / Finance / Paris, France