Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chicken afritada. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
This Chicken Afritada Recipe are slices of chicken cooked in tomato sauce along with onions and Chicken Afritada or afritadang manok is a type of Filipino chicken stew with tomato based sauced. Chicken Afritada is another popular Filipino dish. Pieces of chicken are cooked in tomato sauce along with carrots, potatoes and bell peppers.
Chicken Afritada is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Chicken Afritada is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken afritada using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Afritada:
- Get 1 /2 kilo chicken (I used chicken breast fillets quartered)
- Make ready 4 cloves garlic minced
- Prepare 1 medium sized onion diced
- Take 2 green bell peppers diced
- Make ready 1/2 cup green peas
- Take 2 cups tomato sauce
- Prepare 1 cup water
- Get 2 potatoes or sweet potatoes cubed
- Make ready 1 carrot cubed
- Take 1 dried bay leaf
- Get 1 chicken bouillon cube
- Take 2 tablespoons brown sugar or to taste
- Make ready Cooking oil
- Get to taste Salt and pepper
You can prepare this stew entirely on the stove or braise it in the oven. Chicken Afritada Recipe, also known as Apritadang Manok. Afritada is one of those tomato sauce based stews that many Filipinos believed have been introduced in the Philippines by the Spaniards. Afritada is a Spanish based Filipino dish consisting of chicken, beef, or pork braised in tomato sauce with carrots, potatoes, and red and green bell peppers.
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.
It is served on white rice and is a common everyday Filipino meal. It can also be used to cook seafood. This local chicken recipe, the afritada, is sure to be an easy family favorite. There is so much to love about this hearty chicken and tomato stew. Chicken Afritada is a classic Filipino dish, with tender chicken nestled within potatoes and sweet peppers.
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