Adobo sauce comes from what country's cuisine?

Adobo sauce is a type of hot sauce or marinade used in Mexican and Southwestern cuisines. Adobo is a Spanish word for "sauce" or "marinade," and the dark red adobo sauce is used in many contexts in Mexican food. Its main ingredients are typically chile peppers, garlic, and vinegar, though variations are common. Tomatoes, onions, and a variety of herbs and spices often complete the recipe.

Adobo sauce may be used as a condiment or as a marinade. One popular recipe involves using chipotles in adobo sauce. This dish, using smoked jalapeño peppers can be found canned in the Hispanic foods section of many grocery stores, but it is easy to make at home. Chipotles in adobo sauce make an excellent side dish for nearly any Mexican or Southwestern meal, or they can be added to pasta or meat dishes, other sauces, or any other recipe that would benefit from a bit of smoky spice.

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Russ Dobell

Nonsense, Adobo is Philippine, not Mexican, I should know, I've lived in both Countries......

wok

Wrong answer The cooking method is indigenous to the Philippines. Early Filipinos cooked their food normally by roasting, steaming or boiling methods. To keep it fresh longer, food was often cooked by immersion in vinegar and salt. Thus, it is very likely that Filipinos could have been cooking meat in vinegar as a means of preservation. This process dates back to the Pre-Hispanic Period and was used for pork and chicken.

Betty Woodrum

The Adobe sauce originated in the Philippines.. not Mexico.. gets your facts straight..

Charles Fish

My boyfriend is Filipino and makes chicken adobo all the time. As asked Phillipines is also correct. Should read "originated" if you want it not to be an answer. Bad question.

Bruce Ford

ANOTHER poorly researched question with an incorrect answer. In fact, by the wording of the question, the answer isn't even an option. Spain is the correct answer the way the question reads. Second best based on choices provided is The Philippines.

Carolyn Brior

According to Wikipedia, it originated on the Iberian peninsula. "Adobo or Adobar (Spanish: marinade, sauce, or seasoning) is the immersion of raw food in a stock (or sauce) composed variously of paprika, oregano, salt, garlic, and vinegar to preserve and enhance its flavor. The Portuguese variant is known as Carne de vinha d'alhos. The practice is native to Iberia, namely Spanish cuisine and Portuguese cuisine. It was widely adopted in Latin America and other Spanish and Portuguese colonies, including the Azores and Madeira. In the Philippines, the name adobo was given by the Spanish colonists to an indigenous cooking method that also uses vinegar, which, although superficially similar, had developed independently of Spanish influence."

wyodinosaur

Again multiple correct answers. Philippines is correct also.

Ed Tillinghast

Definitely Philippine cuisine.

esglover

Not sure how this question was ever published. The answer is wrong. Everyone who gave their approval should be penalize.

Al Breyette

Another quiz club question with the wrong answer!!! Adobo is a Phillipine dish. More bonus points lost because the author puts an incorrect answer as the right one. What is happening to quiz club. Have they fired all their question checkers due to budget cuts?

Terry2ts

Spanish or Portuguese is the correct answer: Wiki - Adobo or Adobar is the immersion of raw food in a stock composed variously of paprika, oregano, salt, garlic, and vinegar to preserve and enhance its flavor. The Portuguese variant is known as Carne de vinha d'alhos. The practice is native to Iberia, namely Spanish cuisine and Portuguese cuisine.

David Hansen

It also comes from the Philippines

Ken Putnam

Bullshit One more proof that there is NO review anymore Adobo is Philipine

Barb Beck

Again ANOTHER WRONG ANSWER. Adobo is from the Philippines, not Mexico. My dad was stationed there during his military service, and my son in law is Filipino and he grew up eating this. So now Quiz Club has once again cheated me out of bonus points. BOO

Mariah Hartberg

Very wrong answer, I was stationed in the Philippines and had lots of their food including Adobo!

Dennis Nayland-Smith

Adobo is from Spain and Portugal - was taken to both Mexico and the Philippines....It is a method of flavouring food by covering it in various spices. check wiki Adobo or Adobar is the immersion of raw food in a stock composed variously of paprika, oregano, salt, garlic, and vinegar to preserve and enhance its flavor. The Portuguese variant is known as Carne de vinha d'alhos. The practice is native to Iberia, namely Spanish cuisine and Portuguese cuisine.