African style chicken

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 6 people, you will need:

• 1 1 smoked chicken
• 2 1 onion
• 3 4 tablespoons palm oil
• 4 150 ml unsweetened coconut milk
• 5 500 g tinned red kidney beans
• 6 125 g button or field mushrooms (optional)
• 7 125 g small pieces of bacon
• 8 250 ml tomato coulis
• 9 fine (or table) salt
• 10 pepper
• 11 1 tablespoon palm oil
• 12 2 tablespoons palm oil
• Total weight: 3,055 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
26 min.	1 hour 38 min.	2 hours 4 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Skin 1 smoked chicken, keeping only flesh (discard skin and bones), then cut out into small pieces.
2	In large pan, heat 4 tablespoons palm oil (or olive oil), then add chopped 1 onion, salt and pepper. Cook for a few minutes without browning too much.
3	Add chicken pieces.
4	Stir well, and cook a few minutes while stirring so it doesn't catch on the bottom.
5	Pour in half of 250 ml tomato coulis.
6	Stir well.
7	Pour in 150 ml unsweetened coconut milk, stir well.
8	Cover and leave to cook on low heat for at least an hour.
9	Meanwhile heat 1 tablespoon palm oil in a frying pan, then add 125 g small pieces of bacon and cook for a few minutes until they are lightly fried. Set aside.
10	In another pan, heat 2 tablespoons palm oil, then add drained and rinsed 500 g tinned red kidney beans. Cook one or two minutes while stirring so that that they do not burn on bottom.
11	Add remaining tomato coulis, then fried bacon, and 125 g button or field mushrooms if desired.
12	Stir well and leave to cook covered on low heat until chicken has its full cooking time. Meanwhile cook rice.
13	To serve, put rice onto a plate, add beans on top, then chicken.

Remarks

You can easily replace palm oil with olive oil, for a tastier dish tomato coulis by tomato sauce for pizzas.
It's a meal which can easily be re-heated or frozen. So do not hesitate to make a good deal of it, even if it's for the first time.

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