Chicken Adobo

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Adobo is simply a cooking process indigenous to the Philippines, a mode of stewing nutrient oregon vegetables utilizing vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, bay leaves and peppercorn. Here, the vinegar and soy condiment utilized successful the marinade/sauce enactment arsenic preservatives, and Filipino cooks volition permission the adobo to beryllium for a fewer days without refrigeration. They often transportation an adobo erstwhile they are traveling successful country.

And adobo is not constricted to chicken. Other meats specified arsenic pork, beef, food and squid are used, arsenic good arsenic vegetables specified arsenic Chinese agelong beans, called "sitaw" successful the Philippines. Also, depending connected wherever a idiosyncratic is from, adobo is cooked assorted ways: with oregon without soy sauce, food condiment oregon coconut milk.

Emma Bloc, co-owner and cook astatine Manila Mart successful Beltsville, Md., is from the Bulacan province, truthful she makes an adobo that has a saucier stew than, say, what is typically recovered successful her husband's hometown of Cavite. But some dishes are packed with flavor.

Serve with steamed achromatic rice.

The chickenhearted needs to marinate for 1 hour. The finished crockery tin beryllium refrigerated for astir 1 week oregon frozen for up to 6 months.

Adapted from Emma Bloc, chef-co-owner of Manila Mart successful Beltsville, Md.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 6)

• Calories

  510

• Fat

  39 g

• Saturated Fat

  9 g

• Carbohydrates

  5 g

• Sodium

  680 mg

• Cholesterol

  200 mg

• Protein

  35 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from Emma Bloc, chef-co-owner of Manila Mart successful Beltsville, Md.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.