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).
342K 35 4.3
Last modified on: February 21th 2011
Keywords for this recipe:ChickenAfricanAfricaStyleSautédTomatoCoconutFor 2 people, you will need:
- 0
1⁄3 smoked chicken - 1
1⁄3 onion - 2
1 tablespoon palm oil - 3
50 ml unsweetened coconut milk - 4
167 g tinned red kidney beans - 5
42 g button or field mushrooms (optional) - 6
42 g small pieces of bacon - 7
83 ml tomato coulis - 8
fine (or table) salt - 9
pepper - 10 1⁄3 tablespoon palm oil
- 11 1 tablespoon palm oil
- Total weight: 1,056 grams
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Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 26 min. | 1 hour 38 min. | 2 hours 4 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 20 min.
Skin 1⁄3 smoked chicken, keeping only flesh (discard skin and bones), then cut out into small pieces.
Stage 2 - 3 min.
In large pan, heat 1 tablespoon palm oil (or olive oil), then add chopped 1⁄3 onion, salt and pepper.
Cook for a few minutes without browning too much.
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 83 ml tomato coulis.
Stage 6 - 1 min.
Stir well.
Stage 7 - 1 min.
Pour in 50 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 1⁄3 tablespoon palm oil in a frying pan, then add 42 g small pieces of bacon and cook for a few minutes until they are lightly fried.
Set aside.
Set aside.
Stage 10 - 2 min.
In another pan, heat 1 tablespoon palm oil, then add drained and rinsed 167 g tinned red kidney beans.
Cook one or two minutes while stirring so that that they do not burn on bottom.
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 42 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.
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.
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.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 2,100 Kcal or 8,792 Kj | 165 gr | 108 gr | 112 gr |
| 105 % | 63 % | 10 % | 17 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 199 Kcal or 833 Kj | 16 gr | 10 gr | 11 gr |
| 10 % | 6 % | 1 % | 2 % |
| Per person | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 1,050 Kcal or 4,396 Kj | 82 gr | 54 gr | 56 gr |
| 53 % | 32 % | 5 % | 8 % |
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Source
Essy Buhendwa (great master of Africo-Brittany chicken), recipe adapted by Nanou.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Tinned red kidney beans: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Pumpkin and red-bean tortillas, Mexican tart, Cauliflower, red bean and avocado salad, Enchiladas, Mexican salad, ... All |
 | Tomato coulis: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Express chilli con carne, Bolognaise lasagne, ... All |
 | Unsweetened coconut milk: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Bounty-style tart for Alison, Like Bounty, Mixed vegetable curry, Coconut-vanilla cream for Elsa , ... All |
 | Small pieces of bacon: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Alsatian-style salad, Beef braised in reduced red wine, Creamy "terre et mer" pots, Bourguignon potatoes , Fougasse with bacon and Comté, ... All |
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