What is Filipino Adobo — food

What is Filipino Adobo

What is Filipino adobo? The Filipino adobo is a type of food of the Filipino people; they called that food as adobo in their language.

Ingredients of Adobo

Here are the main ingredients of adobo.

• pork
• Salt
• Vinegar
• Garlic
• Onion
• Oil
• Soy sauce

The pork should slice according to your size. Salt; common to the Filipino used sea salt, iodized salt, and Himalayan salt and if you would like to use Himalayan salt, if you would like to add to your adobo the sea salt, iodized salt, but not choose all just select if what kind of salt you want to put to your adobo.

• Vinegar

The best vinegar to use in cooking of adobo was the vinegar from coconut, there are many brands of vinegar in the Philippines but the best vinegar to use was the natural process vinegar.

• Garlic

Slice the garlic and the onion and cook first the garlic until the garlic will brown and next the onion.

• Oil

Cook the garlic and onion on oil. You can’t make adobo if no oil. Use either coconut oil, palm oil or other types of oil.

• Soy sauce

You can’t cook adobo and the food adobo is not food adobo if don’t have soy sauce. There’s no adobo if there was no soy sauce, soy sauce was the ingredient that the adobo was called adobo.

Even all ingredients are present unless soy sauce that type of menu was not adobo.

Expect that the adobo is salty type of food, however not all adobo was salty; the taste was on the hands of cookers.  Some cookers used calamandin as substitute for vinegar and some cookers used vinegar for their menu.

Not all adobo has pork but beef, remember the adobo can be applies to all meet that might used for adobo menu.

Not all adobo has pork but beef, remember the adobo can be applies to all meet that might used for adobo menu.

Not all adobo has pork ingredient; there was also beef, chicken and more meats. The adobo menu was called adobo from the other ingredients other than meat. If the meat was pork, the abodo is still the adobo but the for specific we can call it as pork’s adobo, if the meat was beef we can call it as beef’s adobo, if chicken we can call it as chicken’s adobo, if bird, we can call it as bird’s adobo and same manner.

There are many steps in cooking of adobo and the one step is chop the meat according to your size, chop the garlic and onion in small manner and thin but not very thin and very small and cook first the garlic in oil, second the onion, then, the meat and wait until the meat is tender.

If the meat was tender, put the soy sauce with caution to avoid the salty taste of your adobo and put the vinegar with caution as well and put some remaining ingredients to enhance the taste.

The cooking of adobo meat is very simple and we can apply the adobo in different types especially if vegetables adobos like water spinach and more.  If water spinach we can call it as water spinach adobo.