Filipino Chicken Adobo (Cooked in Soy Sauce and Vinegar) – Kalyn’s Kitchen

Filipino Rooster Adobo is the nationwide dish of the Philippines, and it’s a low-carb rooster dish that’s scrumptious and straightforward to make. I’ve made this with items of rooster breast up to now, however immediately I’m updating the recipe to make use of more-authentic rooster thighs; use whichever rooster elements you favor!

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Filipino Rooster Adobo, is a recipe I’ve been making for years, first adapting it from a recipe from Mark Bittman and recommendation I’d gotten from just a few Filipino meals bloggers. Then lately I received infatuated with Rooster Adobo once more, and determined that utilizing skin-on bone-in rooster thighs actually was essentially the most genuine solution to make this well-known dish. 

We beloved this new model with rooster thighs that was scrumptious and straightforward to make, and with thighs we used a barely totally different course of than we did for the Rooster Adobo made with rooster breasts. (You should use that hyperlink to see the older recipe in the event you have been a fan and like rooster breasts.) I’ll additionally give some suggestions for many who may want utilizing breasts on this new simpler recipe. 

This up to date simpler model browns the rooster first, simmers it the soy sauce combination, after which retains rooster heat whereas the sauce is diminished. It omits the onions which I ended up feeling didn’t add a lot and needed to be strained out of the sauce.  in the event you’re a fan in any respect of Asian rooster recipes the place the rooster is cooked with soy sauce, I hope you contemplating attempting this up to date model of Filipino Rooster Adobo made with rooster thighs!

What’s Filipino Rooster Adobo?

Rooster Adobo is the nationwide dish of the Philippines, and it’s historically made with an entire rooster or bone-in rooster legs and thighs. (Don’t confuse this with Mexican spices or dishes which are known as Adobo; it’s a fully totally different dish.) The rooster is simmered within the Adobo combination of soy sauce, vinegar, water, garlic, bay leaves, onions, and pepper, and all the time broiled or pan-fried as a part of the method. And naturally that is the kind of recipe the place each Filipino grandmother may have her personal recipe, however I hope my course of for making Rooster Adobo is fairly near how some cooks would make it within the Philippines.

What components do you want?

(That is solely an inventory of components; please scroll down for full printable recipe. Or in the event you use the JUMP TO RECIPE hyperlink on the high of the web page, it is going to take you on to the whole recipe.)

Why do I exploit Low-Sodium Gluten-Free Soy Sauce for Rooster Adobo?

Filipino Rooster Adobo is a dish the place rooster is simmered in a combination with a number of soy sauce. Then the sauce is diminished by cooking it down, so common soy sauce has the potential to make you find yourself with overly-salty sauce. I beloved San-J Low-Sodium Gluten-Free Tamari (affiliate hyperlink) for this recipe, however in the event you don’t discover that model there are many different good ones. And naturally use gluten-free soy sauce if wanted.

What in the event you don’t have white wine vinegar for the Rooster Adobo?

Essentially the most conventional vinegar for making Adobo might be cane or coconut vinegar, however in the event you look across the net you’ll see cooks utilizing apple cider vinegar, rice wine vinegar, and common white vinegar. So use the kind of vinegar you’ve readily available for this recipe!

What garlic must you use for Rooster Adobo?

I’m guessing most cooks would use recent minced garlic within the Phillipines, and that’s nice in the event you’re up for that. We used minced garlic from a jar, which was straightforward and gave nice taste. We did discover that the minced garlic items confirmed within the sauce after we spooned it over the cooked items of rooster. We didn’t thoughts that in any respect, however use crushed garlic in the event you want a smoother sauce.

Do you have to use entire peppercorns for Rooster Adobo?

Many Filipino cooks use entire peppercorns for the Adobo sauce combination, however we used coarse floor black pepper so we didn’t have to fret about biting right into a peppercorn!

The way to Make Filipino Rooster Adobo:

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We examined the recipe with 5 giant thighs, however there’s sufficient sauce for 8 thighs. (For rooster breasts, use 4 medium breasts minimize in half on the diagonal.)
Trim to take away extra pores and skin and fats and season rooster with salt and pepper.
Warmth peanut oil in giant frying pan over medium-high warmth.
Brown rooster pores and skin aspect down, shifting items just a few instances as wanted for browning. (I’d brown rooster 5-6 minutes for thighs, and a minute or two much less for rooster breasts.)
Flip rooster over and brown different aspect about 4 minutes (or a bit much less for rooster breasts.)
Whereas rooster browns, mix soy sauce (ideally low sodium and gluten-free if wanted), white wine vinegar, water, minced or crushed garlic, bay leaves, coarse black pepper, and Floor Chipotle Pepper (if utilizing) to make the sauce
Pour sauce over rooster and prepare dinner about 10 minutes, lined and at very low simmer. (For rooster breasts I’d solely simmer about 5-6 minutes.)
Then flip rooster over and prepare dinner lined for 10 minutes extra, or till the rooster is cooked by means of. (For breasts I’d solely simmer rooster about 4 minutes for second aspect.)
Take away rooster to a plate and canopy tightly to maintain heat. Enhance warmth and prepare dinner the sauce till it’s diminished sufficient to coat your spoon, about 10-Quarter-hour. I’d style to make certain it’s not getting too robust.
If you happen to don’t suppose the rooster is heat sufficient, put again within the diminished sauce and simmer a couple of minutes. (We didn’t want to do this.)
Serve rooster with the diminished sauce spooned over and further sauce on the aspect.

Make it a Low-Carb Meal

In fact within the Philippines this tasty rooster can be served with rice with the additional sauce spooned over the rice. However it could be superb served with Straightforward Cauliflower Rice with Garlic and Inexperienced Onion if you need a lower-carb possibility. I’d additionally love this Rooster Adobo with Wonderful Asian Inexperienced Salad, Roasted Broccoli with Soy Sauce and Sesame Seeds, or Air Fryer Asian Inexperienced Beans for a low-carb meal.

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Low-Carb Weight loss plan / South Seashore Weight loss plan Strategies: This Filipino Rooster Adobo recipe is low in carbs and needs to be appropriate for low-carb or Keto weight loss plan plans, which will certainly want the brand new model with higher-fat rooster thighs. Leaner rooster breasts would most likely be best suited for  the unique South Seashore Weight loss plan, though even when it’s made with thighs this recipe isn’t terribly excessive in fats.

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Historic Notes for this Recipe:I first made Rooster Adobo for the weblog in 2005, when the web was lots friendlier and I used to be chatting recurrently with a bunch of Pinoy meals bloggers! The pictures have been improved in a model that used rooster breasts in 2011. (Use this hyperlink t0 see the printer-friendly model of the recipe with rooster breasts.) This present model with extra genuine rooster thighs was up to date with tremendously improved pictures and extra data in 2023.

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