Filipino
Chicken Afritada (Filipino Chicken and Vegetable Stew in Tomato Sauce)
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Chicken Afritada (Filipino Chicken and Vegetable Stew in Tomato Sauce) is Filipino home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Cut the potatoes and carrot into large chunks.
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Heat the oil in a pot over medium-high heat and brown the chicken on all sides, then set it aside.
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Add the onion and garlic to the pot and cook until softened, about 3 minutes.
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Stir in the tomato sauce, water, bay leaves, fish sauce, and salt, and bring to a simmer.
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Return the chicken to the pot, cover, and simmer until nearly tender, about 20 minutes.
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Add the potatoes and carrot and simmer until they are just tender, about 15 minutes.
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Stir in the bell pepper and green peas and simmer until the chicken is fully cooked and the vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes more.
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Taste and adjust the seasoning, then serve hot over the jasmine rice.
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Serve it with
A Filipino dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken Afritada (Filipino Chicken and Vegetable Stew in Tomato Sauce), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chicken Afritada (Filipino Chicken and Vegetable Stew in Tomato Sauce) carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Adobong Baboy (Pork Adobo) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 620 kcal
- Protein
- 33 g
- Carbs
- 58 g
- Fat
- 28 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 6 g
- Sodium
- 660 mg
- Saturated fat
- 8 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Chicken Afritada (Filipino Chicken and Vegetable Stew in Tomato Sauce) takes about 50 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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