Calories and protein in a serving of chicken adobo, with and without oil
Also called adobong manok.
The short answer
1 serving, about 200 g, normal oil
310 kcal
41 g protein
Fat 12 g · carbs 5.5 g · fibre 0.5 g · With meat or fish
Portion: boneless thigh meat with sauce, without rice. Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
Skin-on thighs add a lot of fat. This counts skinless meat, so leave the oil level higher if you keep the skin.
With and without oil
The same 1 serving, changing only the oil the chicken is browned in. Normal is about 4 g in this portion. A little halves the recipe’s fat and a lot doubles it, so in a portion of the same weight a lot comes out a little under double. These are the four levels the app asks about, with the same numbers.
| Oil | Added | Calories | Protein |
|---|---|---|---|
| None | 0 g | 280 kcal | 42 g |
| A little | 2 g | 290 kcal | 42 g |
| Normal | 4 g | 310 kcal | 41 g |
| A lot | 7.5 g | 340 kcal | 41 g |
What moves the number
- Chicken thighabout 240 kcal
- Oil (the oil the chicken is browned in)about 35 kcal
- Soy sauceabout 10 kcal
The recipe behind these numbers
Raw ingredient weights in one 1 serving, scaled from the batch recipe in the Homekcal app’s dish table, with normal oil. Water, salt and spices add almost no energy but are listed so the recipe is complete. If your version has more of something, the numbers move with it.
| Ingredient | Weight | Calories | Protein |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken thighUSDA: Chicken, broilers or fryers, dark meat, thigh, meat only, raw | 200 g | 240 | 39 g |
| Soy sauceUSDA: Soy sauce made from soy and wheat (shoyu) | 20 g | 10 | 1.5 g |
| VinegarUSDA: Vinegar, distilled | 20 g | 5 | 0 g |
| GarlicUSDA: Garlic, raw | 5 g | 5 | 0.5 g |
| Black pepperUSDA: Spices, pepper, black | 1 g | 0 | 0 g |
| SugarUSDA: Sugars, granulated | 2.5 g | 10 | 0 g |
| WaterUSDA: Beverages, water, tap, drinking | 38 g | 0 | 0 g |
| OilUSDA: Oil, canolaThe oil the chicken is browned in | 4 g | 35 | 0 g |
What we could not match
Stand ins and assumptions in this recipe that a person still has to check.
- Meat weight is edible meat without bone; bone-in pieces on the plate weigh more than the meat they carry.
How this was worked out
This is the same dish the Homekcal app logs, from the same table. Each raw ingredient’s weight is multiplied by its per-100 g values in USDA FoodData Central, the batch is added up and divided by the cooked weight it makes. Calories are rounded to the nearest 10 and grams to the nearest gram, because a standard recipe is not your recipe. These are calculated values, not weighed or lab tested meals, and home versions vary a lot.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2026. fdc.nal.usda.gov. Public domain (CC0).
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