Filipino Chicken Adobo (incredible, EASY chicken thigh recipe!)

Filipino Chicken Adobo is the national dish of the Philippines and may well become your new favourite Asian chicken dish! Just a few everyday ingredients I can practically guarantee you already have, it's an effortless recipe that yields juicy, tender chicken coated in a sweet savoury glaze with little pops of heat from peppercorns.

This is a chicken thigh recipe and it MUST be made with thighs - no substituting with chicken breast!

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[PazHimself]

I’m Mexican but my mom worked with a lot of Filipino people when I was young. This and sinagang were my favorites growing up.

[Hellrider.]

My parents are Filipino but I was born in Spain. Recently I moved to USA, I miss my mom's cooking so much that i decided to start making my own filipino food. Thank you so much for the recipe.

[Mary-shbp]

I looked at the comments down below and it’s amazing that everyone seemed to like Filipino adobo! I’m Filipino, and I had to google how to make adobo because my mom couldn’t be bothered. She said: “Just google it!” Yours is amazing! Loved it! But, my mom uses sprite instead of water because it tenderizes bone-in chicken. However, if you have boneless, just use sugar and it’s good too.

[DVision.]

My parents are Filipino but I was born in Canada. I am still learning how to cook Filipino food but I think you can never go wrong with Adobo!

[walexander]

This is the one. Looks like a nice thick sauce. Making it tomorrow

Tomorrow: ok, I made this for family and we all agreed on less vinegar. I would cut it by 20% to start. Also add 10% more brown sugar. But it was good 🙂

[nicholassilverio]

Squid Adobo (𝘈𝘥𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘵 in Tagalog), one of the several traditional native adobo dishes here in the Philippines (others are Pork Adobo, Chicken Adobo, Beef Adobo, Fish Adobo, 𝘈𝘥𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘒𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘬𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘈𝘥𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘵𝘢𝘺, &c.), also tastes like heaven. You should try it, it's one of my favorite dishes here. 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

[carolemaurois]

We made the chicken for dinner tonight. It was delicious! I only used 1 tspn black pepper and added one tspn of chicken bullion.

[yogibutterflyes]

Im an Indian, i like this Adobo chicken since 2000 onwards. One of my Filipino friend Mr Job F Villaruel, who teached me how to cook and all my local friends are enjoyed .

[AmitChoudhary-mqui]

I m from india i realy like chicken adobo. My favourite filipino dish. ❤❤

[timalaveti]

In Fiji 🇫🇯 I tasted Adobo its a mixture of pork and chicken and I love it

[jennie]

I went to a Filipino church for a year when I was about 10 years old. They had Sunday potlucks and they made this chicken and steamed rice. I love Chinese and Japanese and Thai food, but dang their chicken adobo was goood lol. Ty for the recipe. Going to try it!

[mymyersfamily]

This was very good. I marinated by chicken on the counter for about 30 min before cooking and it had a lot of flavor.

[the_enby_geek]

I made this for dinner just now, and it's delicious! 🤤

[Mai-juym]

Thanks for teaching me to be wifey! My partner and I absolutely loved the chicken adobo, this recipe has become our staple. We're both half filipino, thanks for making it easier for us to connect to our culture/cuisine.

[jammer]

Pinoy dishes are the best!! I will use your recipe po!! Maraming salamat po!! Magluluto ko ng first time ito!!🥰🥰

[Pinayakodito]

Just proud how foreign food blogger can appreciate and include our cuisine on their channel..than you! 😋

[mojonewslk]

I just found this recipe this morning and just used it for a couple of chicken I had in the refrigerator and was trying to figure out what to do with them. It was great and I’ll be doing this again.

[REOGURU]

Super easy and great taste. I've tried about half a dozen other Adobo recipies that were much more complicated that didn't even come close to this one. TY!

[snakeeyez]

I made this dish for my wife who is Filipino and cooks chicken adobo all the time. She said there are many things wrong with this recipe such as the simmer time is way too short and it needs a lot more sauce.

[laurakhan]

I will definitely try it tomorrow!!
I love how short is the video but straight to the point!! 👏 👏