🥡 Chicken Asado

Meat · Main ingredient: Chicken · ⏱ 30 min · Serves 5 · ~₱295 · Best for: Dinner, Lunch

Ingredients

• 1 kg Chicken, cut into serving pieces
• 3 tbsp Cooking oil
• 1 pc Onion, sliced
• 4 cloves Garlic, minced
• 0.3333 cup Soy sauce
• 3 tbsp Brown sugar
• 0.5 cup Tomato sauce or 2 tbsp tomato paste
• 2 pc Bay leaves
• 0.25 tsp Ground black pepper
• 1 tbsp Calamansi juice
• 1 pc Potato, cubed and fried (optional)

Instructions

1. In a bowl, marinate chicken in soy sauce, calamansi juice, and pepper for 20-30 minutes.
2. Heat oil in a pot and sauté onion and garlic until fragrant.
3. Remove chicken from marinade (reserve marinade) and sear in the pot until lightly browned.
4. Add tomato sauce, brown sugar, bay leaves, reserved marinade, and water; bring to a boil.
5. Lower heat, cover, and simmer for 25-30 minutes until chicken is tender and sauce has thickened.
6. Add fried potato cubes if using, and simmer for 5 more minutes.
7. Adjust sweetness and saltiness to taste, then serve hot with steamed rice.

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