Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chicken afritada. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chicken Afritada or afritadang manok is a type of Filipino chicken stew with tomato based sauced. It is a simple dish that can be cooked on regular days. It is perfect for lunch and is better when eaten with warm white rice.
Chicken Afritada is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Chicken Afritada is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken afritada using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Afritada:
- Get 1 /2 kilo chicken (I used chicken breast fillets quartered)
- Take 4 cloves garlic minced
- Get 1 medium sized onion diced
- Make ready 2 green bell peppers diced
- Take 1/2 cup green peas
- Get 2 cups tomato sauce
- Take 1 cup water
- Make ready 2 potatoes or sweet potatoes cubed
- Get 1 carrot cubed
- Prepare 1 dried bay leaf
- Take 1 chicken bouillon cube
- Prepare 2 tablespoons brown sugar or to taste
- Make ready Cooking oil
- Make ready to taste Salt and pepper
Saute potatoes, carrots and bell pepper. Using the same pan, saute garlic then add onion. If many people will share your Chicken Afritada, you can cut the chicken into smaller pieces and perhaps add more potato and carrot. I use store bought chicken broth for this recipe.
Steps to make Chicken Afritada:
- Heat oil in pan and add garlic and onions. Cook garlic until light golden brown and onions translucent. Add bay leaf. Cook potatoes for about 5 minutes or until soft but not mushy. Set aside.
- Using the same pan/pot cook chicken in left over oil for 10-15 minutes or both sides are browned (I like cooking my chicken in oil to give it a crispy outside, you may skip this and just boil chicken in water until cooked).
- Add carrots, peas, green bell peppers the cooked garlic, onions & bay leaf previously set aside. Pour water to deglaze pan add chicken buillon cube and simmer for another five minutes.
- Pour tomato sauce and let it simmer on low heat for another 10 minutes. Season with sugar, salt, and pepper. Remove from heat and serve with steamed white rice.
You may use regular chicken stock or chicken cube. The Chicken Afritada recipe is a Traditional Filipino dish made by sauteing garlic, onions, fresh chickens, carrots, and potatoes together with tomato sauce, green peas, and bell pepper. It can either be sweet, salty or both depending on what suits your taste buds as well as the other people you're cooking it for. Chicken Afritada is really easy to make and the taste is GORGEOUS! Perfectly tender chicken, delicious sauce, yummy veggies… I fried potatoes, carrots, and bell pepper separately before adding them to the dish.
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