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Filipino Chicken Adobo

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Ingredients

Chicken and Marinade

  • 750g / 1.5 lb chicken thigh fillets , boneless and skinless (5 – 6 pieces) (Note 1)
  • 3 garlic cloves , minced
  • 1/3 cup (85ml) soy sauce , ordinary all purpose or light (not dark soy sauce, Note 2)
  • 1/3 cup + 2 tbsp white vinegar
  • 4 bay leaves (fresh) or 3 dried

For cooking

  • 2 tbsp oil , separated (vegetable, canola or peanut)
  • 3 garlic cloves , minced
  • 1 small brown onion , diced
  • 1 1/2 cups (375 ml) water
  • 2 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1 tbsp whole black pepper (sub 2 tsp coarse cracked pepper)

Serving:

  • 2 green onions/scallions , sliced (garnish)

Instructions

  • Combine Chicken and Marinade ingredients in a bowl. Marinate for at least 20 minutes, or up to overnight.
  • Heat 1 tbsp oil in a skillet over high heat. Remove chicken from marinade (reserve marinade) and place in the pan. Sear both sides until browned – about 1 minute on each side. Do not cook the chicken all the way through.
  • Remove chicken skillet and set aside.
  • Heat the remaining oil in skillet. Add garlic and onion, cook 1 1/2 minutes.
  • Add the reserved marinade, water, sugar and black pepper. Bring it to a simmer then turn heat down to medium high. Simmer 5 minutes.
  • Add chicken smooth side down. Simmer uncovered for 20 to 25 minutes (no need to stir), turning chicken at around 15 minutes, until the sauce reduces down to a thick jam-like syrup.
  • If the sauce isn’t thick enough, remove chicken onto a plate and let the sauce simmer by itself – it will thicken much quicker – then return chicken to the skillet to coat in the glaze.
  • Coat chicken in glaze then serve over rice.

Notes

1. Chicken thighs – do NOT substitute with breast. You need the fat in thighs in order for the sauce to reduce down to a glaze. Can also use bone in thighs, wings or drumsticks (add 3/4 cup water and simmer 30 minutes)

2. Doubled marinade and cooking sauce to have enough to pour over rice.

Air Fryer Pork Chops

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INGREDIENTS

  • 2 center-cut, bone-in pork chops, 1 ½ – 2 inches thick (DuRock chops from Fareway)
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon paprika
  • 1 ½ teaspoons salt
  • 1 ½ teaspoons fresh ground black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon ground mustard
  • ½ teaspoon onion powder
  • ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1–2 tablespoons olive oil

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Preheat air fryer to 400 degrees for 5 minutes
  2. Rinse pork chops with cool water and pat dry completely with a paper towel.
  3. In a small bowl, mix together all the dry ingredients.
  4. Coat the pork chops with olive oil and rub in the mix. Rub it in well and liberally. Use almost all of the rub mix for the 2 pork chops.
  5. Cook pork chops in air fryer at 400 degrees for 12 minutes, flipping pork chops over after 6 minutes.

Air Fryer Pork Chops

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INGREDIENTS

  • 2 center-cut, bone-in pork chops, 1 ½ – 2 inches thick
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon paprika
  • 1 ½ teaspoons salt
  • 1 ½ teaspoons fresh ground black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon ground mustard
  • ½ teaspoon onion powder
  • ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1–2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1/2 c Panko Breadcrumbs

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Preheat air fryer to 400 degrees for 5 minutes
  2. Rinse pork chops with cool water and pat dry completely with a paper towel.
  3. In a small bowl, mix together all the dry ingredients.
  4. Coat the pork chops with olive oil and rub in the mix. Rub it in well and liberally. Use almost all of the rub mix for the 2 pork chops.
  5. Press Panko Breadcrumbs into each side of pork chop
  6. Cook pork chops in air fryer at 400 degrees for 12 minutes, flipping pork chops over after 6 minutes.