Chicken Afritada. Chicken Afritada or afritadang manok is a type of Filipino chicken stew with tomato based sauced. It is a simple dish that can be cooked on regular days. It is perfect for lunch and is better when eaten with warm white rice.

Then I would transfer the browned chicken pieces in the crockpot. Made with a whole chicken, tomatoes, and potatoes, chicken afritada is a traditional savory stew from the Philippines that's great over rice. Afritada is a Filipino favorite with tender chicken cooked in a rich savory tomato-based sauce. You can have Chicken Afritada using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chicken Afritada

Prepare 1 of /2 kilo chicken (I used chicken breast fillets quartered).
You need 4 cloves of garlic minced.
It's 1 of medium sized onion diced.
You need 2 of green bell peppers diced.
You need 1/2 cup of green peas.
You need 2 cups of tomato sauce.
You need 1 cup of water.
It's 2 of potatoes or sweet potatoes cubed.
Prepare 1 of carrot cubed.
Prepare 1 of dried bay leaf.
It's 1 of chicken bouillon cube.
It's 2 tablespoons of brown sugar or to taste.
It's of Cooking oil.
It's to taste of Salt and pepper.

Add the chicken stock, bay leaves, and soy sauce to the pan. If many people will share your Chicken Afritada, you can cut the chicken into smaller pieces and perhaps add more potato and carrot. I use store bought chicken broth for this recipe. You may use regular chicken stock or chicken cube.

Chicken Afritada step by step

Heat oil in pan and add garlic and onions. Cook garlic until light golden brown and onions translucent. Add bay leaf. Cook potatoes for about 5 minutes or until soft but not mushy. Set aside..
Using the same pan/pot cook chicken in left over oil for 10-15 minutes or both sides are browned (I like cooking my chicken in oil to give it a crispy outside, you may skip this and just boil chicken in water until cooked)..
Add carrots, peas, green bell peppers the cooked garlic, onions & bay leaf previously set aside. Pour water to deglaze pan add chicken buillon cube and simmer for another five minutes..
Pour tomato sauce and let it simmer on low heat for another 10 minutes. Season with sugar, salt, and pepper. Remove from heat and serve with steamed white rice..

This is a remake recipe video for Filipino Chicken Afritada. In this episode, I will show you how to easily cook chicken afritada with hotdogs. This is a delicious dish that is best eaten with. Chicken afritada is one of the many Filipino tomato based stew. In this case, it is a tomato based chicken stew.