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African style chicken

This is a sort of smoked chicken, cooked in a tomato-coconut sauce, and served with kidney beans and plain rice. It's quite a simple recipe, with ready-made ingredients, but which needs a long cooking time on low heat (one hour).

415 K 4.3/5 (36 reviews)

2 hours 4 min. difficulté

Easy

£9.05

6 people

12 Ingredients

Last modified on: February 21^th 2011

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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

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Times for this recipe

Preparation: 30 min.

Cooking: 1 hour 40 min.

All in all: 2 hours 4 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 20 min.

Skin 1 smoked chicken, keeping only flesh (discard skin and bones), then cut out into small pieces.

Stage 2 - 3 min.

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.

Stage 3 - 1 min.

Add chicken pieces.

Stage 4 - 3 min.

Stir well, and cook a few minutes while stirring so it doesn't catch on the bottom.

Stage 5 - 1 min.

Pour in half of 250 ml tomato coulis.

Stage 6 - 1 min.

Stir well.

Stage 7 - 1 min.

Pour in 150 ml unsweetened coconut milk, stir well.

Stage 8 - 1 hour

Cover and leave to cook on low heat for at least an hour.

Stage 9 - 10 min.

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.

Stage 10 - 2 min.

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.

Stage 11 - 2 min.

Add remaining tomato coulis, then fried bacon, and 125 g button or field mushrooms if desired.

Stage 12 - 20 min.

Stir well and leave to cook covered on low heat until chicken has its full cooking time.

Meanwhile cook rice.

Stage 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.

Keeping: Several days in the fridge, in a closed jar.

Source: Essy Buhendwa (great master of Africo-Brittany chicken), recipe adapted by Nanou.

Nutritional information

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	490 RDI=190 %	320 RDI=30 %	350 RDI=50 %	6,430 RDI=320 %	26,910 RDI: 320 %
Per 100 g	20 RDI=6 %	10 RDI=1 %	10 RDI=2 %	210 RDI=10 %	880 RDI: 10 %
Per person	80 RDI=30 %	50 RDI=5 %	60 RDI=9 %	1,070 RDI=50 %	4,490 RDI: 50 %

The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman Change to a man

How much will it cost?

For 6 people : £9.05
Per person : £1.55

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