Cooking Blog: Chicken Afritada For Our Lunch

Hello, how are you? It has been a while since I cooked and ate chicken afritada, and I guess my parents are craving one too. So usually when we have chicken in stock, I usually cook it adobo, but today, for a change, they asked me to cook afritada instead.

I started cooking late today, so we ate lunch at 2 pm, two hours from our usual lunch time LOL.

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Ingredients I Used:

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Let's Cook!

The first thing I do is heat the pan, add half a cup of cooking oil, add the potatoes and carrots, and fry them until crispy. You can skip this part, and I just like the taste of it better when fried first, but highly recommended. Set them aside for later.

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In the same pan, I season the oil with a little salt and ground pepper, and then I add the chicken.

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Cook it until some part of it is crispy, then add the aromatics like red bell pepper, garlic, red onion, and ginger, and sauté them until the aroma comes out.

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To make it extra, I add a tablespoon of butter for a buttery taste and smell.

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Then I add 2 tablespoons of fish sauce. Let the fish sauce seep into the chicken.

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Then I add spaghetti sauce, cream, and cheese. I should add tomato paste, but we ran out of it.

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Then I add one chicken broth cube.

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Mix everything until well combined, and then add three cups of hot water. Cook it for 15 minutes over medium heat.

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After that, I added the potatoes and carrots I fried earlier and then cooked them for about 5 minutes over medium-low heat.

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Then I added a dash of ground black pepper for extra spice.

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Serve hot and plated.

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Perfect to eat when it is still hot.

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Happy eating! :D

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Thank you for visiting, see you on my next blog. :D
Please take care of your mental health as well.
I hope you are okay today :))

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