Instant Pot Chicken Adobo
Learn how to make Instant Pot Chicken Adobo! This Filipino adobo recipe gets a pressure cooker update – use your Instant Pot to make adobo more flavorful and tender!
Learn how to make Instant Pot Chicken Adobo! This Filipino adobo recipe gets an update – the pressure cooker makes it more flavorful and tender!
In a few weeks, we will be welcoming a new member of the family. A baby girl, or Baby A, as she is currently known (we’ve all been racking our brains guessing her name) will be born to my little sister. Little does she know how very loved she already is, and how we are all counting down to her arrival! A new niece to spoil!
Around this time last week, I was driving home from the airport, after a quick, 24 hours in San Diego. Friends and family from across the country flew in to surprise my sister for a baby shower and to spend some time together before Baby A’s arrival.
Seeing my sister’s stunned look as she walked through the doors was priceless, but not quite as special as it was for me to see her baby belly, which had grown since I last saw her in November. She and my brother-in-law are some of the kindest, most thoughtful couples I know, and I can’t wait to see them enter this next chapter of their life.
Where there’s family, there’s food, so as I caught up with my cousins, we ate our fill of Filipino food. There was barbecue and pancit, caldereta and of course, adobo. Despite eating my fill, upon my return home, the adobo craving continued, and I had to make some for my family, who, as it turned out, was craving adobo, too.
I know what you’re thinking. Haven’t you already shared a recipe for Filipino Chicken Adobo?
Yes, I have, a classic Filipino chicken adobo recipe that is my tried-and-true. But I’ve been loving using my pressure cooker lately. Why? Well, for one, I often forget to marinate my chicken for optimal flavor, and I find that using a pressure cooker (such as an Instant Pot) helps make up for my lack of planning. Just as a pressure cooker is able to infuse extra flavor into homemade soup stock in less time, the same is true when making chicken adobo. While it may not save cooking time, it does result in maximum flavor without marinating, and that is a timesaver.
Besides, I wanted to make sure my sister has a good chicken adobo recipe she can use in the Instant Pot I sent her for Christmas. I have a feeling once Baby A arrives, she’s going to need all the easy recipes she can get!
Loved this Filipino Chicken Adobo? Try more of our favorite family recipes:
Classic Filipino Chicken Adobo
Adobo Loco Moco
Chicken and Asparagus Sotanghon (Glass Noodle) Soup
Filipino Meatball Noodle Soup
Pancit Bihon (Filipino Rice Noodles)
Costa Rican Gallo Pinto (Rice and Beans)
Arroz Caldo
Instant Pot Chicken Adobo
Ingredients
- 8 chicken thighs on the bone skin on or off, to taste
- 1/3 cup soy sauce I prefer Silver Swan for this recipe
- 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
- 1 small head of garlic mashed or finely minced
- freshly ground black pepper
- 3 bay leaves
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
Instructions
- Place the chicken in soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, pepper, and bay leaves in the pressure cooker and set the multi-cooker to "brown."
- When the sauce begins to bubble, turn the chicken and cook for another two minutes.
- Transfer the sauce to a bowl, add oil to the pot, and brown the chicken on all sides, working in batches if necessary.
- Return the sauce to the pressure cooker, cover with the valve set to "pressure" and cook on High pressure for about 20 minutes.
- Depressurize the pressure cooker. Cook on the simmer function with the lid off to allow the sauce to reduce a bit.
- Serve hot over rice.
I love adobo. I make it all the time. I am going to give your version a try.
Hope you enjoy it, Matt!