🍯 Chicken Estofado

Meat · Main ingredient: Chicken · ⏱ 37 min · Serves 5 · ~₱305 · 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
• 2 pc Bay leaves
• 3 pc Saba bananas, peeled, halved, and fried
• 0.5 cup Dried shiitake mushrooms, soaked and sliced (optional)
• 3 pinch Salt, to taste
• 0.5 tsp Pepper, to taste

Instructions

1. Marinate chicken in soy sauce 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 reserved marinade, brown sugar, bay leaves, and water; bring to a boil.
5. Lower heat, cover, and simmer for 25-30 minutes until chicken is tender.
6. Meanwhile, fry saba banana halves in a little oil until golden; set aside.
7. Add mushrooms to the pot, if using, and simmer for 5 minutes until sauce thickens slightly.
8. Add the fried saba bananas just before serving, and simmer for 1-2 minutes to heat through.
9. Adjust seasoning and serve hot with rice.

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