Chicken Recipes – 3 Filipino Chicken Dishes (Easy and Delicious)

Here are 5 chicken recipes that are simple and easy to cook.

CHICKEN RECIPES – These are some easy Filipino dishes that mainly feature chicken and the ingredients.

To many Filipinos, eating together is one of the most intimate bonding that keeps the family together. Pinoys are known as huge celebrators and hospitable hosts. At every celebration, different kinds of foods are overflowing the table and one that they will never miss out on is chicken dishes.

Chicken is definitely one flexible food to cook. You can fry it, make a soup out of it, steam it, and many other ways. And one famous dish from the Philippines is the “Chicken Adobo”. But there are certainly a lot of other ways to cook it the Filipino way that will give you more reason to love it.

  • Pinoy Chicken Curry Recipe – This is a creamy and flavorful dish that blends perfectly with white rice.

    The ingredients are fish sauce, bell pepper, celery, coconut milk or evaporated milk, potato, garlic, onion, ginger, and pepper if needed.
Pinoy Chicken Curry Recipe
Photo lifted from Lutong Bahay Recipe
  • Malapot na Pininyahang Manok – Pineapple is a bit controversial ingredient in many dishes but in this particular dish, its sour tanginess and sweetness are the highlights.

    What makes the sauce “malapot” or thick and creamy is the addition of cornstarch and liver spread for flavor. The other things needed are cooking oil, diced onions, 5 cloves of chopped garlic, 3 tablespoons of soy sauce, 8 ounces of pineapple chunks, 2 cups of water, 1 Knorr Chicken Cube, carrots, red bell pepper, green bell pepper, salt, ground black pepper, and sugar.
Malapot na Pininyahang Manok
Photo lifted from Panlasang Pinoy
  • Chicken Afritada – This dish has tomato-based sauce which is also best paired with warm white rice.

    Basically, the ingredients include carrots and potatoes. It also has green peas, sliced hotdogs, and garlic and onion for sautéing. You may also need tomato sauce and water or broth. Use fish sauce or soy sauce as an alternative salt.
Chicken Afritada
Photo lifted from Yummy Addiction

In the Philippines, each household practically has its own version of Chicken Afrotada.

According to a post from Panlasang Pinoy, the other recipes with chicken as the main ingredient are Pork and Chicken Sinigang, Chicken Gising-gising, Chicken Gizzard Bicol Express, Chicken Sotanghon Tinola, Original Buffalo Chicken Wings, Garlic Roast Chicken, Sinarsahang Manok, Chicken Barbecue, Chicken Macaroni Salad, Chicken Paksiw Recipe, Chicken Igado, Chicken Binagoongan Recipe, Sweet and Sour Chicken Meatballs, Chicken Kare-Kare sa Gata, Chicken Feet in Oyster Sauce with Salted Black Beans, and many others

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