🇵🇭 How to Make Chicken Adobo

Craving Chicken Adobo? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Chicken Adobo at home, in about 50 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 1kg chicken thighs, bone in
• 120ml soy sauce
• 120ml cane or white vinegar
• 1 whole head of garlic, cloves smashed
• 3 bay leaves
• 1 tsp whole black peppercorns
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• 200ml water

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Marinate the chicken in the soy sauce and garlic for at least 30 min.
2. Brown the chicken skin-side down in a dry hot pan — the fat renders out and does the work.
3. Add the marinade, vinegar, water, bay and peppercorns.
4. Bring to the boil and then DO NOT STIR for the first 5 minutes. Letting the vinegar cook off its raw edge before stirring is the one rule every Filipino cook repeats.
5. Simmer, partly covered, 30 min until the chicken is tender.
6. Lift the chicken out and reduce the sauce hard until glossy. Add the sugar, pour back over, serve with rice.