Chicken Menudo

Chicken Menudo is a variation of the popular Filipino savory stew made of pork, hot dogs, potatoes, carrots, bell peppers in a thick tomato and liver sauce. This recipe uses cubed chicken breast.

Ingredients:
1/2 kg chicken breast, cubed
3 medium potatoes, cubed
2 medium carrots, cubed
1/2 cup raisins
1 medium green bell pepper, diced
500 ml tomato sauce or tomato paste
1 can liver spread
1 medium onion, chopped
5 garlic cloves, chopped
grated cheese
2 pieces large hotdog (optional)
green peas (optional)

Marinade
2 bay leaves
1 cup Sprite
4 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons calamansi juice
ground black pepper


Procedure:
Combine all marinade ingredients. Divide the marinade in halves. Save half. Add pork cubes on the other half with the bay leaf and marinate for at least 30 minutes.
Remove chicken from the marinade, drip dry.
Sauté garlic and onion, add chicken and the unused half of the marinade and bay leaf, simmer uncovered, reduce the liquid to half.
Add tomato sauce, liver paste, carrots, potatoes and raisins, simmer.
Add peppers and adjust the seasoning.
Add the grated cheese, let it melt, stir and distribute evenly. Serve hot.