How to make or cook easy recipes of Pinoy style Afritada

Afritada from Philippines is usually made of chicken stew with tomato sauce, carrots and the bell pepper. This ingredient is the most common recipe in making Afritada. Some Filipino cooker says that making Afritada is very simple than  cooking  kaldereta and Menudo because you cab let the chicken simmer in your stew base. 

Ingredients:

- 2 lbs chicken, cut into serving pieces

- 1 large potato, quartered

- 1 large carrot, sliced

- 1 large bell pepper, sliced

- 1 cup green peas

- 8 ounces tomato sauce

- 4 cloves garlic, minced

- 4 pieces hotdogs, sliced

- 1 medium onion, diced

- 1 1/4 cups chicken broth or stock

- 2 pieces dried bay leaves

- 1 teaspoon granulated white sugar

- 4 tablespoons cooking oil

- Salt and ground black pepper to taste

Cooking process:

- Pour-in cooking oil in a cooking pot or casserole then apply heat.

- Pan-fry the chicken until the color turns light brown (about 3 minutes per side).

- Remove the chicken from the cooking pot.

- On the same cooking pot, sauté garlic and onions.

- Put-in the sliced hotdogs and pan-fried chicken then cook for a minute.

- Pour-in tomato sauce and chicken stock then add bay leaves. Simmer for 30 to 40 minutes.

- Add the potato and carrots then simmer for 7 minutes or until the vegetables are soft.

- Put-in the bell pepper, green peas, salt, sugar, and ground black pepper then cook for 3 minutes more.

- Turn-off heat then transfer to a serving plate.

- Serve with steamed rice. Share and enjoy!