Chicken Adobo with Lemon

Adobo dish is usually accompanied by soy sauce and vinegar whether you are cooking pork, chicken or beef. This recipe, the chicken adobo in lemon doesn’t have soy sauce and vinegar but instead, use fish sauce to give it’s salty flavor that replace the soy sauce and lemon to substitute the vinegar.

To cook chicken adobo in lemon; Saute ginger, garlic and onion and add the chicken. Stir fry until the liquid evaporates. Then add 1/2 cup water, patis and black pepper. Simmer for few minutes. When the liquid almost evaporates, pour the lemon juice. Cover and simmer for a few minutes until the juice almost evaporates but not too dry. Season with magic sarap and sugar and adjust as necessary according to your preferred taste. Serve hot and garnish with slices of lemon.

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How to Cook Chicken Adobo with Lemon

This recipe, the chicken adobo in lemon doesn't have soy sauce and vinegar but instead, use fish sauce to give it's salty flavor that replace the soy sauce and lemon to substitute the vinegar.

Prep Time10 mins

Cook Time30 mins

Total Time40 mins

Course: Chicken Recipe

Cuisine: Filipino

Keyword: adobo with lemon, chicken adobo

Servings: 6 servings

Calories: 206kcal

Author: Manny

Ingredients

• 1 kilo dressed chicken chop into serving pieces
• 1 pc lemon extract the juice
• 1 Tbsp. Patis or fish sauce
• 1 tsp. Magic Sarap
• 1/2 tsp. black pepper ground
• 1 Tbsp. Brown sugar
• 3 cloves garlic crushed
• 1 pc red onion chopped
• 1 inch ginger slivered

Instructions

How to cook chicken adobo with lemon:

• Saute ginger, garlic and onion and add the chicken. Stir fry until the liquid evaporates.
• Then add 1/2 cup water, patis and black pepper. Simmer for few minutes.
• When the liquid almost evaporates, pour the lemon juice.
• Cover and simmer for a few minutes until the juice almost evaporates but not too dry.
• Season with magic sarap and sugar and adjust as necessary according to your preferred taste.
• Serve hot and garnish with slices of lemon.

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