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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).

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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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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

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
6,427 Kcal or 26,909 Kj	495 gr	323 gr	351 gr
321 %	190 %	30 %	53 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
210 Kcal or 879 Kj	16 gr	11 gr	11 gr
11 %	6 %	1 %	2 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,071 Kcal or 4,484 Kj	82 gr	54 gr	58 gr
54 %	32 %	5 %	9 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 6 people : 10.61 €
Per person : 1.77 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Tinned red kidney beans: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Mexican salad, Mexican tart, Enchiladas, Cauliflower, red bean and avocado salad, Chicano burger, ... All
	Tomato coulis: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Bolognaise lasagne, Express chilli con carne, ... All
	Unsweetened coconut milk: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Mixed vegetable curry, Coconut-vanilla cream for Elsa , Cauliflower coconut curry, Bounty-style tart for Alison, Like Bounty, ... All
	Small pieces of bacon: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Lumberjack turnovers, Fillet of pollack cooked in two stages, Maroilles cheese quiche, Baby spinach salad, bread-crust quiche, ... All

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