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African style chicken

Name: African style chicken
Prep time: 26 min
Cook time: 1 h 38 min
Total time: 2 h 4 min
Yield: 6 people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 smoked chicken; 1 onion; 4 tablespoons palm oil; 150 ml unsweetened coconut milk; 500 g tinned red kidney beans; 125 g button or field mushrooms; 125 g small pieces of bacon; 250 ml tomato coulis; Fine (or table) salt; Pepper; 1 tablespoon palm oil; 2 tablespoons palm oil

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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Duration

2 hours 10 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: October 11^th 2026

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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: 3,050 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation

30 min.

Cooking

1 hour 40 min.

All in all

2 hours 10 min.

Preparation 30 min.

Cooking 1 hour 40 min.

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Step by step recipe

Step 1 - ⌛ 20 min.

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

Step 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.

Step 3 - ⌛ 1 min.

Add chicken pieces.

Step 4 - ⌛ 3 min.

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

Step 5 - ⌛ 1 min.

Pour in half of 250 ml tomato coulis.

Step 6 - ⌛ 1 min.

Stir well.

Step 7 - ⌛ 1 min.

Pour in 150 ml unsweetened coconut milk, stir well.

Step 8 - ⌛ 1 hour

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

Step 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.

Step 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.

Step 11 - ⌛ 2 min.

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

Step 12 - ⌛ 20 min.

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

Meanwhile cook rice.

Step 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.

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Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	16 g RDI=25 %	10 g RDI=4 %	11 g RDI=15 %	207 kcal RDI=10 %	868 kJ RDI=10 %
Per person	82 g RDI=126 %	53 g RDI=20 %	57 g RDI=78 %	1,052 kcal RDI=53 %	4,406 kJ RDI=53 %
Whole recipe	491 g RDI=755 %	318 g RDI=120 %	342 g RDI=469 %	6,314 kcal RDI=316 %	26,434 kJ RDI=316 %