Chicken Adobo - Lower Fat and Sodium

"This recipe uses bone-in skinless chicken breasts and less fat and soy sauce than usual. Lemon juice instead of vinegar gives it a different flavour, although use vinegar if that's what you like. You can substitute a whole chicken, cut up and with skin removed. Serve with steamed rice and vegetables."
 
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Ready In:
45mins
Ingredients:
9
Yields:
4 chicken breasts
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat oil in a large, deep non-stick skillet over medium heat.
  • Add onion and cook for 8-10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until browned.
  • Remove onion from skillet and set aside.
  • Add chicken, garlic, lemon juice, soy sauce, water, pepper and bay leaf to the skillet and stir to combine.
  • Bring to a simmer and then reduce heat to low; Cook covered for 25-30 minutes.
  • Add browned onion to the chicken and stir.
  • Cook, uncovered, an additional 5-10 minutes until chicken is cooked through and tender.

Questions & Replies

  1. Any idea of the sodium content in one serving or total?
     
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Reviews

  1. We loved this chicken, very tasty , the combination of onion garlic lemon and soy was quite delicious! I used boneless/skinless chicken breasts , they worked very well. I added a couple of mushrooms with red onion because i wanted to use them , they made a lovely topping for the chicken. Great flavour! Thanks for posting.
     
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Tweaks

  1. I cut the onion by half, added a couple more bay leaves, used Data Puti vinegar and used coconut aminos instead of soy sauce to reduce the salt even further.
     

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