Chicken Leg Hamonado

This Chicken Leg Quarter Hamonado Filipino style is made with just a minimal amount of ingredients, chicken seared then sautéed with garlic and onions, then basted in a savory marinade made of soy sauce, pineapple juice, sugar, black pepper. Simmered and cooked till golden brown and delicious!

Chicken Leg Quarter Hamonado Recipe :

Ingredients

• 3 chicken leg quarters
• Oil for searing
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 medium onion, minced
• ½ teaspoon black pepper
• ¼ cup soy sauce
• 1 can pineapple juice
• 1 can pineapple slices
• 3 tablespoons sugar

Steps:

1. To prepare the chicken; shallowly slit the chicken (skin up) to help the flavors go through the bones. Set aside.
2. Heat oil in a pan, sear the chicken legs, flip till both sides have browned. Take these out.
3. Saute the garlic with the leftover oil, cook the onion till slightly translucent before adding back the chicken legs. Mix in black pepper, soy sauce, pineapple juice and the juice from the pineapple slices. Cover and let this simmer for 5 minutes.
4. Uncover and flip to cook evenly. Sprinkle in some sugar, giving it a good mix before letting it simmer for another 5 minutes, covered.
5. Flip again, give it a taste before adding more salt as needed. Baste occasionally. Add in the pineapple slices and baste till the chicken looks golden brown.
6. Simmer for another 2 – 3 minutes before serving.

How to cook Chicken Leg Quarter Hamonado ?

This Chicken Hamonado recipe starts with the chicken leg quarter cut with the skin intact to help keep the meat juicy as well as add flavor from the skin’s fat. The chicken is then given shallow slits to help the flavors get through the meat. Seared skin side down first to help release the oils and flavor before flipping to cook the other side. Taken out to cook the aromatics, minced garlic and ginger, adding back the seared chicken legs. Adding in the pepper, soy sauce for umami and color, pineapple juice and the juice from the pineapple slices for sweetness and slight tang. Cover and simmer for a few minutes, flipping after, adding in more sugar for added sweetness then simmering once again to really help bring the flavors together. Give it a taste before adding salt or any more flavorings needed. Add in the pineapple chunks or slices. Baste the chicken or flip it a few more minutes till it looks golden before serving with freshly cooked rice.

Questions:

• Cooking methods:

While the easiest and more affordable would be cooking it similar to the recipe below. There are more than one way to recreate this delicious chicken dish. Some make the Chicken Hamonado in oven sometimes searched as “Chicken Leg Quarter Hamonado Oven” is a dish that just replaces the pan with the oven preheated at 200°C or 390°F for 30 to 45 minutes while brushing it with the marinade every 20 – 25 minutes, flipping this as you do. The chicken is cooked when you poke it with a knife or fork and the juices come out clear.

Some also grill the chicken, mixing the garlic onion, pepper, soy sauce, pineapple juice, and sugar creating a marinade for the chicken. This will be marinated for at least 3 hours or overnight. Grill and flip the chicken while brushing this with the remaining marinade often until it’s cooked. Grill the pineapple slices only when the chicken is almost cooked.

• Other ingredients to add?

Want to make a more interesting “Chicken Hamonado with Pineapple Juice ?” you can try and substitute pineapple juice with Sprite to make “Chicken Hamonado with Sprite”, or add in some hotdogs for a more savory taste that kids will surely love “Chicken Hamonado with Hotdog”, or top these with your choice of cheeses at the end for a delectable “Chicken Hamonado with Cheese”.

Other Yummy Chicken Recipes!

• Cheesy Chicken Wings
• Soy Fried Chicken
• Chicken Bistek ( A Filipino Classic, braised chicken)
• Chicken Pancit Miki ( a filling Filipino chicken noodle dish)
• Chicken Tocino ( Filipino sweet and savory pork breakfast dish substituted with chicken)
• Honey Garlic Chicken Breasts
• Garlic Butter Chicken

Chicken Leg Quarter Hamonado Resipi: (Tagalog version)

Mga Sangkap :

• 3 manok, leg quarters
• Mantika pang luto
• 4 butil ng bawang, tinadtad
• 1 sibuyas, tinadtad
• ½ kutsaritang paminta
• ¼ tasa soy sauce
• 1 lata ng pineapple juice
• 1 lata ng pineapple slices
• 3 kutsarang asukal

Paano Lutuin :

1. Para ihanda nag manok, gawan ng mga mababaw na hiwa ang itaas (sa may balat) para pumasok ang marinade at lumakas ang lasa nito. Itsabi.
2. Uminit ng mantika sa kawali, lutuin ang mga manok hanggang magkaumanggi ang bawat gilid nito. Tanggalin. 
3. Lutuin ang bawang gamit ang natirang mantika bago lutuin ang sibuyas hanggang lumambot ang mga ito. Ibalik ang mga manok. Haluan ng in paminta, soy sauce, pineapple juice at juice galing sa pineapple slices. Takpan at pakuluin ng 5 minuto.
4. Alisin ang takip at ibaliktad ang mga manok para pantay ang pagluto. Haluan ng asukal at pakuluin ng 5 minuto na nakatakip.
5. Baliktarin ang mga manok, tikman at lagyan ng asin kung kinakailangan. Ibaste at lagyan ng mga hiwang pinya. Lutuin hanggang maggolden-brown ang mga manok.
6. Bakuluin ng 2 – 3 minuto bago ihanda.