Chicken Adobo
photo by Nelka
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 8 chicken thighs
- 1 quart water
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups water
- 3⁄4 cup cider vinegar
- 1⁄4 - 1⁄2 cup soy sauce
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 teaspoon fresh coarse ground black pepper
- 8 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced thin
- 1⁄4 cup vegetable oil
directions
- In a large mixing bowl combine thawed chicken, water and salt.
- Allow chicken to soak several minutes while preparing the other ingredients.
- Just before adding to frying pan, drain on paper towels.
- In a medium saucepan combine water, vinegar, soy sauce, bay leaves and pepper.
- Heat on medium low setting, covered, about 15 minutes.
- In a 12" skillet or chicken fryer combine oil and sliced garlic over medium low heat.
- Cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Drain chicken pieces and add, skin side down, to garlic oil, increasing heat to medium high.
- Cook 5 minutes per side.
- Reduce heat to simmer and pour vinegar-soy mixture over chicken.
- If finishing adobo in skillet, partially cover pan and continue cooking, turning occasionally for 30-40 minutes, or until sauce is reduced by half.
- Alternate Slow Cooking Method: After browning chicken, place in 3 or 4 quart slow cooker, on low setting.
- Pour vinegar-soy mixture over top, and cook 2 hours, covered.
- Remove cover, increase setting to high and finish cooking an additional 1 hour.
- Variations May substitute 1 1/2 pounds either cubed pork or beef for the chicken.
- Brown 1" cubes on all sides a total of 5 minutes, then proceed as above.
- Stew meat works well here.
- May use one, (1 to 1 1/2 pound), package boneless, skinless chicken thighs or breasts in place of the regular chicken thighs.
- May replace one cup of water in the vinegar-soy mix with same amount of coconut milk.
- Proceed as above.
- *Discard bay leaves before serving.
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Reviews
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I made this once years ago and I remember it turned out great. Which is amazing if you know that I hate vinegar. This time around it was just as good. Very fresh and tasty and easy to make. I agree that it can take more soy sauce or just plain salt. An some more water for the simmering (I assumed that the two cups of water were for that).
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The family liked this alot. It would be great served over rice, but DH and I recently jumped on the low carb bandwagon, and so we served it over mock mashed potatoes, with a salad. Dinner rolls wouold have been great, too, so sop up all that juice. Anyways...I recommend pulling the chicken off the bone before serving or it makes a big mess when trying to eat. Nothing disgusts me more than taking a bite and finding a fine chicken bone. Do that, and enjoy.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Barenakedchef
United States