Filipino Chicken Adobo (Flavour Kapow!)
Recipe video above. One of the most amazing Asian chicken thigh recipes I have ever come across. Intense in flavour, but so fast and easy to prepare! The chicken is so tender, it eats like it's been slow-cooked.
Ingredients
- 750 g / 1.5 lb chicken thigh fillets (
- 3 garlic cloves (
- 1/3 cup soy sauce (
- 1/3 cup + 2 tbsp white vinegar (
- 4 bay leaves or 3 dried
- 2 tbsp oil (
- 1 small brown onion (
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp whole black pepper )
- 2 green onions/scallions (
Instructions
- 1
Combine Chicken and Marinade ingredients in a bowl. Marinate for at least 20 minutes, or up to overnight.
- 2
Heat 1 tbsp oil in a skillet over high heat. Remove chicken from marinade (reserve marinade) and place in the pan. Sear both sides until browned – about 1 minute on each side. Do not cook the chicken all the way through.
- 3
Remove chicken skillet and set aside.
- 4
Heat the remaining oil in skillet. Add garlic and onion, cook 1 1/2 minutes.
- 5
Add the reserved marinade, water, sugar and black pepper. Bring it to a simmer then turn heat down to medium high. Simmer 5 minutes.
- 6
Add chicken smooth side down. Simmer uncovered for 20 to 25 minutes (no need to stir), turning chicken at around 15 minutes, until the sauce reduces down to a thick jam-like syrup.
- 7
If the sauce isn't thick enough, remove chicken onto a plate and let the sauce simmer by itself - it will thicken much quicker - then return chicken to the skillet to coat in the glaze.
- 8
Coat chicken in glaze then serve over rice. Pictured in post as a healthy dinner plate (415 calories) with cauliflower rice and Ginger Smashed Cucumbers.