Adobo: the base of Filipino cuisine
By pehpot
@pehpot (4762)
Philippines
October 13, 2008 10:55pm CST
I just came up this topic because later I would be cooking adobo, string beans adobo. I cook this adobong sitaw by first simmering the meat in vinegar and garlic and freshly ground pepper. This process is often called adobo,if I am not mistaken. n my household we adobo almost everything, like the beef cadereta, the first step into this dish is adobo, cook the beef adobo style before sauteing it into tomato sauce, or chicken afritada, it is cooked adobo style first. My mom cook chicken adobo style before she made it to a crispy chicken or fried chicken. adobo way of cooking has been used almost everyday. Before I use commercial vinegar when I prepare adobo but now I use vinegar from coconut, I bought it in Tagaytay.
How about you guys do you adobo first before cooking the main dish?
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4 responses
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
14 Oct 08
Oh that is the first time I heard cooking with adobo as the first step. To me adobo is a single separate dish that most Filipinos enjoy a lot. It is perhaps the easiest dish to cook so that when in a hurry...my menu would be adobo. I don't use the adobo first style of cooking in my dishes, I just follow the normal procedure. For fried chicken, I do the jollibee style or KFC's. But sometimes when there are adobo chicken leftovers, I do fry them to recycle and they also taste as great.
@aseretdd (13729)
• Philippines
14 Oct 08
Just ate adobo for my lunch... and it is chicken wings adobo... but i did not add any vegetables... because it was too late when i realized that there was no veggies in my apartment... but i usually cook adobo with potatoes, carrots, and mushroom... the first two are for my daughter and the mushrooms are solely for me...
@iyah10 (4115)
• Kuwait
19 Oct 08
I am not a Filipino and Adobo is not my food culture but when my wife introduced it with me I do learned to accept it as one of my food delicacies as well and sometimes it is i who will request to my wife to make it and also the BBQ Tocino flavor I do like it......and loved it.







