I don't eat a lot of Filipino food, but one of my favourite dishes is chicken adobo. Especially my mom's. Mmm, mmm.
So imagine my surprise to find, over at Adventures in Downtown Toronto, that Maria prepares a nice Mexican dinner that happens to include chicken adobo.
Mexican chicken adobo? Made with prepackaged "Adobo" sauce and served with refried beans and red rice? Indeed.
(We probably have some sort of Spanish colonial legacy to thank for the appearance of adobo in both Mexican and Filipino cuisine...)
Not to knock Maria's dish (obviously I haven't tried it), but here be a recipe for Filipino chicken adobo. Perhaps a wee adobo showdown is in order :)
Maria also runs another blog called Garlicster, which has plenty of recipes and links for any garlic fan. Mmm, garlic...
Comments
Iron Chef Adobo Cookoff... I get to be on the taster's panel!
I'ma be Lower House Member Kurimoto!
I was once a food tv geek y'know.
Posted by: graig | February 8, 2005 1:38 PM
Eat 'em.
Posted by: Beagle | February 8, 2005 5:23 PM
Thanks for the links. Actually I really don't know what goes inside the adobo sauce, I've always used the prepackaged, in one way or another (some are a paste that you have to dilute in chicken broth, the one I got this time is definitely easier to make). It's a bit like mole, but not sweet (mole is sweet-ish). I would love to try the filipino version, AND, I forgot to say on my entry that it's eaten with corn tortillas!
Posted by: Maria | February 9, 2005 9:47 AM
Chicken Adobo is actually the only Filipino dish that I know (or knew, rather) how to make. My dad taught me how to make the adobo sauce from scratch, but I've since forgotten, and need to get it back!
What's funny is that my mom got my wife a Filipino Cookbook, packed with very traditional down home dishes. Which is great, but some of the ingredients are completely foreign to us, and I'm not sure where to find them - or how to pronounce them even. Ah, the plight of the 2nd generation. Sigh.
Posted by: GN | February 16, 2005 1:01 PM