African style chicken


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 21th 2011
For 6 people, you will need:
  • 1 smoked chicken 1 smoked chicken
  • 2 onion 1 onion
  • 3 palm oil 4 tablespoons palm oil
  • 4 unsweetened coconut milk 150 ml unsweetened coconut milk
  • 5 tinned red kidney beans 500 g tinned red kidney beans
  • 6 button or field mushrooms 125 g button or field mushrooms (optional)
  • 7 small pieces of bacon 125 g small pieces of bacon
  • 8 tomato coulis 250 ml tomato coulis
  • 9 fine (or table) salt fine (or table) salt
  • 10 pepper pepper
  • 11 palm oil 1 tablespoon palm oil
  • 12 palm oil 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.
African style chicken : Stage 1
Skin 1 smoked chicken, keeping only flesh (discard skin and bones), then cut out into small pieces.

Stage 2 - 3 min.
African style chicken : Stage 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.

Stage 3 - 1 min.
African style chicken : Stage 3
Add chicken pieces.

Stage 4 - 3 min.
African style chicken : Stage 4
Stir well, and cook a few minutes while stirring so it doesn't catch on the bottom.

Stage 5 - 1 min.
African style chicken : Stage 5
Pour in half of 250 ml tomato coulis.

Stage 6 - 1 min.
African style chicken : Stage 6
Stir well.

Stage 7 - 1 min.
African style chicken : Stage 7
Pour in 150 ml unsweetened coconut milk, stir well.

Stage 8 - 1 hour
African style chicken : Stage 8
Cover and leave to cook on low heat for at least an hour.

Stage 9 - 10 min.
African style chicken : Stage 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.

Stage 10 - 2 min.
African style chicken : Stage 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.

Stage 11 - 2 min.
African style chicken : Stage 11
Add remaining tomato coulis, then fried bacon, and 125 g button or field mushrooms if desired.

Stage 12 - 20 min.
African style chicken : Stage 12
Stir well and leave to cook covered on low heat until chicken has its full cooking time.

Meanwhile cook rice.

Stage 13
African style chicken : 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 recipe490 RDI=190 %320 RDI=30 %350 RDI=50 %6,430 RDI=320 %26,910 RDI: 320 %
Per 100 g20 RDI=6 %10 RDI=1 %10 RDI=2 %210 RDI=10 %880 RDI: 10 %
Per person80 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 : 10.65 €
  • Per person : 1.80 €

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