Celebrating Filipino Adobo– Philippine adobo is a popular Filipino dish and cooking process in Philippine cuisine that includes meat, seafood, or vegetables marinated in vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, bay leaves, and black peppercorns, which is browned in oil, and simmered in the marinade. Filipino Adobo dish is also occasionally considered the unofficial national dish in the Philippines.
Filipino dishes can be found at a five-star restaurant in Manila or inside the homes of Filipino families around the world. in 2006, The word ‘adobo’ was first added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
In the Philippines, adobo shares the same basic elements: marinated meat or vegetables braised into a stew. Common ingredients contain vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, bay leaves, and black pepper. The local flavours make Filipino adobo much sweeter, sourer, and saltier in taste.