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Chicken Afritada

I have had started cooking when I worked in Thailand not because Thai food are spicy and hot, but missing Filipino dishes. Yes, I love Thai cuisine. The funny thing was everytime we order food we have to tell them not to put chilli or pepper and they would tell us "mai ped mai aroy" meaning "not hot not delicious". Yes, that's true so, one whole chilli is already too hot for me. Even at school they serve spicy and hot food for the students because of that I decided to bring lunch at school. Almost half of Filipino teachers in our department were bringging lunch everyday and we shared what we have. That's the time we asked each other about their recipes and tried cooking. During holidays, birthdays and other occasions we love to get together, we cooked Filipino dishes and afritada is one of the dishes I've learned of course there's a little twist but for me it's still called afritada. Afritada can be chicken or pork, this is one of my favorite dish which I usually eat during fiestas and other occasions in our province. I'll assure you it ain't hard to prepare this dish. I hope you will like it.

Chicken Afritada

Ingredients:

• 3 chicken breast cut into chunk 
• a can of Hunts tomato sauce - 15 oz
• a can of Del Monte sweet peas - No salt added - 81/2 oz
• 3 cloves of garlic - crushed
• 1 medium onion - cut into small cubes
• 2 medium potatoes - peeled and cut into chunk smaller than chicken meat
• 1 small carrot - peeled and cut into chunk like pototoes 
• 1 tbs of cooking oil
• 1/2 tsp of ground black pepper
• 1 cube Knorr chicken cubes
• 1/2 tsp of soy sauce
• 1/4 cup of water
• 1 red/ green bell pepper - optional

Preparations:

1. Heat the cooking oil in a pan. Sautee garlic and onion, add chicken cube then the chciken meat. Mix and cover the pan, let the chicken cook for 10 - 15 minutes.

2. Be sure to cook the chicken well before adding sauce sauce, ground black pepper, tomato sauce and 1/4 cup of water. Mix and bring to boil.

3. Add potatoes and let it cook. (I prefer to cook potato first because I don't want the carrot to overcooked it doesn't taste good for me, I always want the crunchness of carrots.)

4. As long as the potato and carrot cooked, add the sweet peas and simmer for 2 minutes.

5. Serve with white steamed rice.