Instant Pot Filipino Chicken Adobo. Instant Pot® Filipino Chicken Adobo Instant Pot® Filipino Chicken Adobo. This streamlined version of a Filipino comfort favorite is speedy in your Instant Pot® multi-cooker, and there's only one pot to clean. Adobo in the Philippines has its origins in the Malay.

Instant Pot Filipino Chicken Adobo is a traditional Filipino dish served with rice, made faster with the help of your modern pressure cooker. This pressure cooker version of Filipino adobo is made with chicken thighs, though whole chicken legs or a cut-up chicken may be substituted. If you don't have an Instant Pot, any pressure cooker may be used; just make sure to follow the manufacturer's instructions for liquids and release. You can have Instant Pot Filipino Chicken Adobo using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Instant Pot Filipino Chicken Adobo

You need 1 of whole chicken cut in several small pieces.
Prepare 1/2 cup of distilled white vinegar.
Prepare 1/4 cup of soy sauce.
It's 2 tablespoons of minced garlic.
It's 1 tablespoon of olive oil.
Prepare 1 tablespoon of brown sugar.
You need 1 teaspoon of black peppercorns, roughly cracked.
You need 3-4 of bay leaves.
It's 1 of large onion, sliced.
Prepare 1 tablespoon of chopped scallions (Optional).

The classic Filipino dish - Chicken Adobo - marinated in vinegar, soy sauce, peppercorns and garlic then cooked in the pressure cooker (instant pot). I have lost count with regard to the number of adobo recipes I have! Well, we love chicken adobo so much that I want to try all the different versions. Pressure Cook: Add soy sauce, vinegar, onion, garlic, and cayenne to pot, stirring well and scraping up any brown bits stuck to bottom of pot.

Instant Pot Filipino Chicken Adobo instructions

Whisk vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, olive oil, brown sugar, and crushed peppercorns in a bowl until sugar is dissolved. Stir bay leaves into the sauce..
Clean and cut up whole chicken is small sizes..
Line the bottom of a multi-functional pressure cooker (such as Instant Pot®) with onion slices. Place chicken on top of onions and pour vinegar-soy sauce over top. Close and lock the lid..
Select high pressure according to manufacturer's instructions; set timer for 10 minutes. Allow 10 minutes for pressure to build..
Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil..
Release pressure using the quick-release method according to manufacturer's instructions, about 5 minutes. Unlock and remove the lid. Using tongs, transfer chicken to the prepared baking sheet, skin-side up. Select Sauté function and cook until sauce thickens, 3 to 5 minutes..
Set an oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven's broiler to high..
Place chicken under the preheated broiler, and broil until skin is crispy, 6 to 8 minutes. Transfer thighs to a serving plate and spoon sauce over the top. Garnish with chopped scallions..

Return all chicken thighs to pot in single layer, snugly on top of onions. Pressure Cook Chicken Adobo and Pot in Pot Rice: Coat the chicken with adobo sauce by dipping the skin side into the adobo sauce, then flip to place them skin side up in Instant Pot. A superb Filipino chicken adobo with onions and garlic cooked in the Instant Pot pressure cooker. Now, my instant pot [paid link] pressure cooker also has the ability to steam rice on one of its many settings but today - all I made in the Instant Pot [paid link] was the Filipino Adobo Chicken. I had some leftover steamed rice in the fridge.