Afritada

Name: Afritada
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 5
Cuisine: Filipino
Ingredients: 1 kg Chicken thighs and drumsticks; 3 Potatoes, peeled and quartered; 2 Carrots, cut into chunks; 2 Red and green bell peppers, cut into squares; 1 Onion, sliced; 5 Garlic cloves, chopped; 400 ml Tomato sauce, plain; 300 ml Chicken stock or water; 2 tbsp Fish sauce; 2 Bay leaves; 1 tsp Sugar; 3 tbsp Oil; 1 tsp Black pepper

Chicken braised in tomato sauce with potato, carrot and bell pepper — the mildest of the three Filipino tomato stews, and the one children are given first.

Fuente

Receta de Filipino home kitchens · 🏺 Tradicional · Cooking that turns on three levers — vinegar, salt from fish or shrimp, and fat — and a table where sour, salty and rich are balanced by the eater, not the cook.

Philippines · tomato-braised chicken — An ownerless traditional dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms afritada as a Philippine dish of chicken or pork braised in tomato sauce with carrots, potatoes and red and green bell peppers, served over rice. The searing order, timings and the peppers-last rule are this book's own.

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⏱ 55 min🍽 5 porciones🔥 400 kcal🇵🇭 Filipinas

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Pasos

Brown the chicken in the oil on all sides over medium-high heat, then lift it out.
Fry the potatoes and carrots in the same pan for 4 minutes until their edges colour, and set them aside too.
💡 Frying the potato first seals it. Dropped straight into the sauce it disintegrates and thickens the stew into paste.
Soften the onion and garlic in the same pan, 3 minutes.
Add the tomato sauce, stock, fish sauce, bay and sugar. Return the chicken and simmer, covered, 20 minutes.
Add the potatoes and carrots and simmer 12 minutes more until a knife slides into the potato.
Stir in the peppers, cook 3 minutes, season with pepper and serve with rice.
💡 Peppers last and briefly. Simmered from the start they go grey and slack, and their job here is colour and a little crunch.

💡 Consejos

Afritada, menudo and kaldereta are three tomato stews that outsiders keep confusing. Afritada is chunky and mild, menudo is diced and has liver, kaldereta is beef or goat and carries chilli and liver spread.
Better the next day, like most tomato braises. Cool it fast, and reheat it gently so the potato survives.