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Afritada is a Philippine dish consisting of chicken, beef, or pork braised in tomato sauce with carrots, potatoes, and red and green bell peppers. It is served on white rice and is a common Filipino meal. It can also be cooked with seafood.

Key facts

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Afritada
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Top: Chicken afritada on white rice, cooked hamonado-style (with pineapples);Bottom: Pork afritada
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Apritada, apretada
Prepared food.country
Philippines
Prepared food.course
Main dish
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Hot
Prepared food.main_ingredient
Chicken/beef/pork, tomato sauce (or banana ketchup), carrots, potatoes, red and green bell pepper
Prepared food.similar_dish
Menudo, kaldereta, hamonado, pininyahang manok, igado, guisantes

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of
chilindrón
Country of origin
Philippines
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Chicken Afritada on white rice with pineapple tidbits (Philippines) 2.jpg
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Afritada
native label
afritada
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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • Description
  • Variants
  • Similar dishes
  • See also
  • References

Afritada is a Philippine dish consisting of chicken, beef, or pork braised in tomato sauce with carrots, potatoes, and red and green bell peppers. It is served on white rice and is a common Filipino meal. It can also be cooked with seafood.

==Etymology== The name afritada is derived from Spanish fritada ("fried"), referring to the first step of the preparation in which the meat is pan-fried before simmering in the tomato sauce.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “afritada” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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