The Big Bold Flavor of Chicken Adobo
Savory sweet, Chicken Adobo is a wonderful addition to your cooking repertoire. Try it tonight for dinner, your family will thank you!
“It’s just starting. I think it’s going to take another year and a half to get up to critical mass, but everybody loves Chinese food, Thai food, Japanese food, and it’s all been exploited. The Filipinos combined the best of all of that with Spanish technique. The Spanish were a colonial power there for 500 years, and they left behind adobo and cooking in vinegar — techniques that, applied to those tropical Asian ingredients, are miraculous.” — Andrew Zimmern
I once had a friend in the military who lived off base. A few friends and I would come over to her home and we would each be asked to bring a few packages of dark meat chicken and a six pack. I would always bring her a few jumbo packs of legs, and she would cook them up into a pungent garlicky smelling sauce that was lip smacking good. We would eat well that night and it was always a nice change from the sameness of our chow hall food. The dish she cooked I knew well was Chicken Adobo.
Adobo is something that I grew up eating as a kid in San Diego. If you had friends who’s relatives made Adobo, it was common to be invited to dinner and this boy didn’t have to be asked twice. Adobo is a dish that can be used for a variety of meats (Pork, Beef…
