Chicken Afritada Recipe
Chicken afritada is perfect for lunch or dinner. It is a stew of chicken simmered in tomato sauce mixed with potatoes, carrots, bell peppers and seasoned with salt and pepper.
Servings: 3 people
Cost: $6
Equipment
- Cooking Pot
Ingredients
- 500 grams chicken
- 2 pcs Carrots small sized. chopped
- 2 pcs Potatoes medium sized, chopped
- 2 pcs Bell peppers 1 green and 1 red, chopped
- 2 tbsp Cooking Oil
- 5 cloves Garlic minced
- 1 medium-sized Onion chopped
- 200 grams Tomato sauce
- 1 pc Knorr cubes chicken or pork flavor , optional
- 3 pcs Bay Leaves and peppercorn
- 1 tsp Sugar
- pinch Ground Black Pepper
- pinch Salt
- 2 cups Water
Instructions
- Saute the onion and garlic in cooking oil under medium heat using skillet or wok.
- Put in the ground pepper and knorr pork cubes and mix well.
- Place the chiken to the skillet and mix it well.
- Add in the tomato sauce and 2 cups of water.
- Bring it to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Put in salt, sugar, bay leaves with peppercorn, potatoes and carrots and simmer again for 3 minutes.
- Check the chicken meat if its done and the potatoes if its fork tender.
- Check the sauce and adjust taste to your liking.
- Lastly, put in the bell peppers and it is done.
- Transfer to a serving plate and serve. Perfect when paired with rice.
Video
Notes
1. You may substitute tomato sauce with tomato paste. 2. You may add msg on it if preferred. I did not add it because the Knorr cubes made the flavor tasty already.
