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Pork and chicken adobo with sweet peanut butter sauce

Pork and chicken adobo with sweet peanut butter sauce
Cook your pork and chicken adobo as usual, and pour in diluted sweetened peanut butter during the last few minutes of cooking. The result is a rich and subtly sweet stew with all the sour-salty-garlicky-peppery goodness of traditional Filipino adobo.
Cook time: 1 hour hour 20 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 people

Chicken Béchamel

Chicken Béchamel
Pretty as a picture and indulgently rich, chicken Béchamel makes a lovely weekend meal. Brown the chicken, bake in Bechamel sauce, sprinkle cheese on top, broil and voila!
Cook time: 45 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 people

Japanese chicken curry

Japanese chicken curry
A less spicy version of the ubiquitous South and Southeast Asian stew that we call curry but just as rich and delicious. Two things make it unique: curry roux and grated apple.
Cook time: 1 hour hour
Servings: 4 people

Butter chicken

Butter chicken
Chicken marinated in yogurt and Indian spices is roasted, deboned and braised in a sauce made with tomatoes, cream and butter.
Cook time: 1 hour hour
Servings: 4 people

Chicken wings and quail eggs adobo

Chicken wings and quail eggs adobo
In this adobo and egg rice bowl recipe, chicken wings are deep fried before braising in adobo sauce. The texture is fantastic. The chicken wings absorb the flavors of the sauce better too. 
Cook time: 50 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 people

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