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Chicken Bistek
Marinated chicken breast stewed in soy sauce with onion.
Fiipino Updated 2/17/2025
Ingredients
Measured from the catalog payload.
- 2 lbs boneless chicken breast
- 3 cloves garlic
- 3 pieces onion sliced into rings
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 cup cooking oil
- salt
- ground black pepper
- 3/4 cup soy sauce
- 1 piece lemon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 cloves garlic crushed
Instructions
11 cooking steps
- Combine the marinade ingredients in a large bowl. Mix well.
- Add the chicken. Make sure that the chicken is completely coated with the marinade. Cover the bowl. Refrigerate overnight.
- Separate the chicken from the remaining marinade. Note: make sure to let most of the liquid drip-off.
- Heat 2 tablespoons of cooking oil in a wok. Fry the chicken for 2 minutes per side. Remove from the wok. Set it aside.
- Heat the remaining cooking oil. Sauté the garlic and around ½ of the total amount of onions.
- Add the chicken once the onion softens. Continue cooking for 30 seconds.
- Pour the remaining marinade and 1 cup water. Let it boil. Adjust the heat to a simmer, cover the wok, and continue cooking for 35 minutes. Note: add more water as needed.
- Add the remaining onions. Cook for 2 minutes.
- Add the sugar and season with salt and ground black pepper.
- Transfer to a serving bowl. Serve.
- Share and enjoy!
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Recipe notes
- Boneless chicken thigh – Make sure your oil is hot before you start cooking up the chicken!
- Garlic – This is a hard ingredient to replace, but you could also try using garlic powder if you’ve run out of actual garlic.
- Onion – Red onions are best, but feel free to use yellow or white ones if unavailable.
- Sugar – Other than white sugar, you could even try this recipe with brown sugar or coconut sugar.
- Lemon – Alternatively, you could use calamansi or lime in the place of the lemon.