Adobo Sauce

Adobo sauce is a hot sauce of chiles, garlic, vinegar, onions, and tomatoes that is applied to many dishes, especially chicken.
   
 
Wikipedia: Adobo Sauce
Adobo sauce is a sauce or marinade used in Latin American- and Southwest U.S.-style cooking, made of finely chopped or pureed chiles, garlic, vinegar, and often onions and tomatoes. Food that has been prepared with adobo is sometimes called adobado.

Chipotles in adobo sauce is a particular use of this condiment in which chipotles (smoked jalapeño peppers) are stewed in adobo sauce. Ingredients of this sauce generally include tomatoes, garlic, vinegar, salt, and spices.
 
Texas Monthly
Featured in the June 1993 issue of Texas Monthly
Cafe Noche’s Adobo Sauce

6 ancho chiles
10 pasilla chiles
2 cups hot water
1 1-inch cinnamon stick
5 whole cloves
6 black peppercorns
1/4 teaspoon thyme
1/4 teaspoon marjoram
1/4 teaspoon cumin
6 cloves garlic, peeled
2 tablespoons mild white vinegar
2 bay leaves
2 tablespoons sugar
3 cups chicken stock

Toast chiles in shallow pan in a 300-degree oven until slightly charred, 4 to 5 minutes, watching carefully and turning occasionally. When cool enough to handle (wear latex gloves if skin is sensitive), slit and remove seeds. Soak in hot water 20 minutes. Transfer chiles and 1 cup of the water to blender. Add all ingredients except vinegar, bay leaves, sugar, and stock. Blend well. Combine with remaining ingredients in saucepan. Simmer for 15 minutes, until sauce thickens.
   
15 June 1960, Dallas Morning News, section 4, pg. 3:
On the menu was one of the favorite dishes of Eisenhower when he was an Army officer here—snipe adobo, snipe cooked in a vinegar sauce and highly spiced.
 
20 June 1985, Chicago Herald, section 6, pg. 6:
But her recipe calls for canned chile chipotle, jalapeno peppers that are dried, smoked then preserved in vinegar or adobo sauce.

15 September 1985, Syracuse (NY) Herald-Journal, pg. P15:
Chipotle: (...) Available in cans; often canned in vinegar or used in a red adobo sauce.
 
(Trademark)
Word Mark ADOBO
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Owner (APPLICANT) Goya Foods, Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 100 Seaview Drive Secaucus NEW JERSEY 07096
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(Trademark)
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