Chicken Adobo - Bulk Recipe

Recipe thanks to the Cooking for Change! program.

Serves: 15

Ingredients

• 3kg chicken thigh fillets
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• 1 bulb garlic
• 4 onions
• 1.5 litres water
• ½ - 1 cup brown sugar
• Black pepper
• Garnish
• Spring onion, to garnish

Marinade:

• 1 bulb garlic
• 1 cup soy sauce
• 1 ½ cups white vinegar (rice wine vinegar, white wine, or apple cider vinegar).
• 6 Bay leaves

Method

1. Cut chicken into large pieces and marinade for at least 30 minutes.
2. Prepare onion and garlic.
3. Heat ¼ oil in a frying pan. Remove chicken from marinade and fry until brown on both sides but not cooked through.
4. Heat remaining oil in a large pot and fry onion and garlic.
5. Add remaining marinade, sugar, water and pepper. Boil then simmer for 5 minutes.
6. Add the chicken and simmer for 20 mins, lid off, until the chicken is cooked through.
7. If the sauce is not think enough, remove chicken and boil sauce to evaporate and thicken.
8. Serve chicken on a bed of rice, coated in sauce, and garnished with spring onion.