Chicken Adobo Recipe
Chicken adobo is one of the most popular Filipino recipes, other than lumpia and pancit.
There are many ways to cook adobo, for example: you can make it with a slow cooker or crock pot chicken adobo, but cooking it on the stove top with a skillet is quick and easy.
What Is Chicken Adobo?
Chicken Adobo is a Filipino chickenrecipe that is well loved by many people.
The ingredients are chicken, bay leaves, black peppercorn and bay leaves. You can use any parts of the chicken: breasts, thighs, legs or wings.
I used chicken thighs for this recipe and yields tender, moist, fall-off-the-bone chicken.
You can use a pot, pan, skillet, slow cooker or an Instant Pot to make this recipe.
Adobo
This recipe is from The Adobo Road Cookbook.
It’s an authentic adobo recipe and yields delicious and amazing results. The seasonings consist of soy sauce and Filipino white cane sugar vinegar. You can also use distilled white vinegar.
How Do You Make the Best and Authentic Filipino Adobo?
- Brown the chicken thighs in the broiler for 3–5 minutes.
- Use whole black peppercorns.
- Reduce the sauce until it is almost completely evaporated; the chicken will then begin to fry in its own fat.
- For more sauce, double the amount of soy sauce and vinegar.
Chicken adobo makes a perfect dish for weeknight dinner as the cooking process is so easy. I just love it that everything gets done in one pot and the ingredients are everyday ingredients that you can get easily in any store.
There is no need to marinate the chicken; the chicken soaks up the sauce while cooking in the pan.
How Many Calories per Serving?
This adobo recipe is only 63 calories per serving.
What Dishes to Serve with This Recipe?
This meal is best served with steamed rice. For a wholesome meal and easy weeknight dinner, I recommend the following recipes.
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How to Make the Best Filipino Chicken Adobo Recipe?
Please refer to the recipe card below for detailed step-by-step method on how to make chicken abodo.
Chicken Adobo
Chicken Adobo - crazy delicious Filipino chicken adobo recipe made in one pot. Chicken Adobo is an easy dinner for the entire family.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup 65 ml soy sauce
- 1/2 cup 125 ml white Filipino cane vinegar, or distilled white vinegar
- 6-8 cloves garlic smashed with the side of a knife and peeled
- 1 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
- 2 bay leaves
- 6 skin-on bone-in chicken thighs
Directions
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Place the soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, black peppercorns, and bay leaves in a large, nonreactive sauté pan, and then nestle the chicken thighs, skin side down, into the pan.
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Bring the liquid to a boil over high heat, and then cover and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes. Turn the chicken over, and then cover and simmer for another 10 minutes.
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Uncover the pan, and then increase the heat to high and return the sauce to a boil. While occasionally turning and basting the chicken, continue boiling the sauce, uncovered, until it is reduced by half and thickens slightly, 5–7 minutes.
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Serve with steamed white rice.
Recipe Video
Recipe Notes
Watch the cooking video on this page for step-by-step guide.
While the sauce is reducing, you may transfer the chicken thighs, skin side up, to a foil-lined sheet pan. Brown the chicken thighs underneath the broiler for 3–5 minutes. Use freshly ground black pepper instead of whole peppercorns.
For a “drier” chicken adobo, you can reduce the sauce until it is almost completely evaporated. The chicken will then begin to fry in its own fat that is still left in the pan.
For a saucier adobo, double the amount of soy sauce and vinegar.
To make this adobo as an appetizer, use 2 lbs (1 kg) of chicken wings instead of thighs.
Recipe Source: The Adobo Road Cookbook.
Shawna Kinsman
If you can get the Filipino cane sugar vinegar you should. It turns out much better than regular distilled white vinegar. I found Flipino vinegar with hot peppers in the bottle. It adds just a hint of spiciness, yummm!
Rasa Malaysia
Sounds good.
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Just made this recipe
It was very good and
Different thanks for sharing
I will be making this again
Rasa Malaysia
Awesome
BobB
It’s a 5 star …not that it is exceptional gourmet …but it’s a delicious meal everyone at the table will enjoy …and, it’s easy to make.
I think I will be making this routinely (maybe with some variations.) Highly recommended!
Thanks again for another wonderful recipe Bee!
BobB (aka Roberto)
Rasa Malaysia
Thanks!
Jackie
Chicken adobo was a fan favorite in my house growing up. My mother is from Cebu, City. I have learned to cook some of my favorite Filipino recipes from being in the kitchen with her. You and my mom cook this dish the same exact way and it’s absolutely delicious. My mom has passed away but her memory and good food lives on. It’s so nice to see others embrace their culture and share with others too.
Kathleen
I grew up eating adobo as a regular meal in mom’s rotation but didn’t appreciate it as a child, My grandfather taught mom to cook. He immigrated from the Philippines as a young man. I added a dash of fresh grated ginger and I was back in his kitchen. I LOVE the particular blend of sweet, sour and salty that Filipino food offers. What more could you ask for?! Thank you so much for the recipe. Can’t wait to try your Pancit.
Admin
Thanks for your support.
Fiona Cordingley
Thanks for the great recipe. It is so tasty and easy to make, especially on busy work days! I double the amount of soy sauce (low sodium) and vinegar because we like more sauce. This is a regular meal now in our home😋
Admin
Thanks!