Chicken afritada
Chicken afritada, from above
Non vegPhilippines

Chicken afritada

Chicken braised in tomato sauce with potatoes, carrots and bell peppers. The everyday Filipino stew.

50 minTime
52 gProtein each
mildSpice
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Make it your way

Grandma's wayChicken in tomato sauce with potatoes, carrots, peppers and peas.
The original
543kcalsame
52 gproteinsame
6 gfibresame
50minutessame

Chicken afritada.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

4 servings
Chicken, curry cut (bone in chicken, small pieces)1 kg bone in pieces
Cooking oil (vegetable oil)1 tbsp
Garlic5 cloves
Onion1
Fish sauce1½ tbsp
Tomato puree1 cup tomato sauce
Water1¼ cups
Bay leaf (indian bay leaf)1
Potatochunks
Carrotchunks
Capsicum (green capsicum, green bell pepper)green bell pepper, strips
Red bell pepper (red capsicum, red pepper)strips
Green peas½ cup
Saltto taste
Black peppera pinch

Method

4 steps
  1. 1Brown the chicken in the oil.
  2. 2Add the garlic, onion and fish sauce, then the tomato sauce, water and bay leaf. Simmer 20 minutes.
  3. 3Add the potato and carrot and cook 15 minutes.
  4. 4Add the peppers and peas and cook 5 minutes until the chicken shows no pink at the bone.
Serve it like this

Serve in a wide bowl with steamed rice; colourful peppers on top.

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What goes with Chicken afritada: a bread or rice, a side, something to drink and something sweet.

Bread or rice Pandesal150 min
Bread or rice Jeera rice30 min
With a main Pancit bihon40 min
On the side Kinilaw25 min
On the side Laing60 min
To drink Calamansi juice10 min
Something sweet Leche flan75 min
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