Pork / Chicken Adobo Recipe

Estimated cooking time: 50 minutes.

Adobo Ingredients:

• 1/2 kilo pork cut in cubes + 1/2 kilo chicken, cut into pieces or
• choice of either 1 kilo of pork or 1 kilo of chicken
• 1 head garlic, minced
• 1/2 yellow onion, diced
• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 1 cup vinegar
• 2 cups of water
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 5 laurel leaves (bay leaves)
• 4 tablespoons of cooking oil or olive oil
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 3 tablespoons water

Adobo Cooking Instructions:

• In a big sauce pan or wok, heat 2 tablespoons of oil then sauté the minced garlic and onions.
• Add the pork and chicken to the pan. Add 2 cups of water, 1/4 cup of soy sauce, vinegar, paprika and the bay leaves. Bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes or when meat is tender.
• Remove the pork and chicken from the sauce panand on another pan, heat cooking oil and brown the pork and chicken for a few minutes.
• Mix the browned pork and chicken back to the sauce and add cornstarch dissolved in water to thicken.
• Add salt and/or pepper if desired
• Bring to a boil then simmer for an additional 5 minutes.
• Serve hot with the adobo gravy and rice.

Adobo Cooking Tips:

• You have the option to add crushed ginger to the onions and garlic when sautéing. Ginger adds a unique flavor to your pork/chicken adobo.

Chicken Pochero

 

• What You'll Need:
  • 1/2 kilo beef ribs
  • 1 piece onion, sliced medium size
  • 6 cups water
  • 1 head small repolyo
  • 1/8 kilo Baguio beans
  • 2 pieces kamote or potatoes 
  • 2 pieces banana (cardava0 or saging saba sliced into chunks
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 pieces beef broth cubes or seasonings or flavorings
  •  salt and msg to taste

  • 1/2 cup tomato sauce
  Now Let's Cook:
         Boil beef and onion  in water until tender. Remove beef from broth. In the same broth,

  cook veggies, potato or kamote and saba, then remove from broth. Saute' garlic and onion in another pot. Add the beef, broth cubes or other flavorings or seasonings( if there are no broth cubes)and tomato sauce Simmer. Pour 3 cups of broth. Then add potatoes, saba and veggies.

  Serve hot.