Chicken Adobo - 2 yummy ways to cook it...

One of our favorite meals to cook is Chicken Adobo - one of the national dishes of the Philippines. The girls love it and it's frequently requested by Molly during our weekly meal planning (always a good sign for an almost 6 year old). This week we found a new - and I have to say very easy - way to cook this recipe.

The typical way to prepare chicken adobo is simple: a whole cut up chicken, 1/2 cup soy sauce, 3/4 cup vinegar, a lot of garlic (like 1 whole head, cloves crushed and coarsely chopped), freshly ground pepper to taste, 1-2 bay leaves. We usually double the soy sauce and vinegar so that we have extra sauce to put on our rice. And we like to add good sized button mushrooms for mushroom adobo. Then it's basically cook until done. The smells in the house for that short period of time - usually around 20-25 minutes - are just amazing.

However, this time around we cooked half of the chicken adobo using a slow cooker! Wow - that was also really good too. We just let it cook on low for a few hours and wa-laa...chicken adobo. The meat was really tender and practically falling off. Good stuff!

If you happen to try out this recipe, let us know how yours turned out in the Comments section.