Afritada( Chicken in Tomato Sauce)

published by pearl2010 on Nov 20, 2009

I always love to eat chicken when it serve as roasted,fried and chicken soup.But here’s an interesting recipe that you might like to try and you can serve it in any kinds of occasions.

It’s cooking time! So here we go check this out.

Guides in cooking chicken in tomato sauce known as Afritada.

Ingredients:

60 ml (1/4 cup) olive oil

1 small onion, chopped

3-4 cloves garlic, crushed

1 whole chicken, about 1 kg (2lb), cut into serving pieces

250 g (1 cup) crushed tomatoes 

Hunts Pork and Beans (optional)

250 ml (1 cup) water

1 bay leaf (optional)

2-3 medium potatoes, peeled, qaurtered and fried

1 red or green capsicum, cut in 1 cm (1/2-in) strips

85 g (2/3 cup) pitted green (or other) olives

200 g (1 1/2 cups) frozen green peas, thawed

Salt and pepper

Procedures:

1. Heat olive oil in a casserole. Saute onion until transparent, then add garlic and saute until fragrant. Brown the chicken pieces on all sides. Pour in crushed tomatoes and water. Add the bay leaf, bring to the boil, then simmer until chicken is almost tender, about 20 minutes.

2. Add the fried potatoes, capsicum strips and olives and simmer until chicken is tender, 5 to 10 more minutes.Stir in green peas and season with salt and pepper.Remove the bay leaf before serving. Add the Hunts  pork and beans and serve with rice

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8 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

  1. # 1 by V rank
    December 12th, 2009 at 11:11 pm #

    I have my own style cooking afritada… but yours if interesting also…

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  2. # 4 by Dee Gold
    December 19th, 2009 at 8:39 am #

    thanks for sharing

  3. # 5 by Valerie Curtiss
    December 19th, 2009 at 10:28 am #

    Sounds good!

  4. # 6 by bearhugs
    December 19th, 2009 at 11:41 am #

    Yum! Thank you for sharing your recipe. I love chicken afritada!

  5. # 7 by thuanynguyen
    December 30th, 2009 at 3:02 am #

    This looks amazingly tasty!

  6. # 8 by pearl2010
    January 18th, 2010 at 12:59 pm #

    Yep! I like chicken afritada too.

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