Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, kuku paka - african chicken curry. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
For authentic flavor, grill the chicken pieces before stirring them into the simmering sauce. If you like, you can also use boneless, skinless chicken breasts or thighs. Some recipes add potatoes or hard-boiled eggs to the curry.
Kuku paka - African chicken curry is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Kuku paka - African chicken curry is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have kuku paka - african chicken curry using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Kuku paka - African chicken curry:
- Make ready 600 g chicken tight
- Take 2 tbsp minced ginger
- Make ready 1 tbsp minced garlic
- Get 1 tsp chilli powder or paprika
- Get 2-3 big green chilli
- Take 1 tin coconut milk
- Prepare Tin sweet corn (I got mix peas and sweet corn so I use that)
- Prepare 1 lemon
- Make ready 1 tsp turmeric
- Get Some salt
- Take 1 handful green beans
- Get 1 red chilli (finely chopped) for garnish
- Prepare 1 handful coriander
- Get 1-2 tbsp vegetable cooking oil
East African marinated chicken in a lightly spiced coconut sauce. This is a rich and creamy curry from the coastal region of Kenya that combines the wonderful flavour of coconut milk with aromatic ground spices and marinated chicken. My first memory of tasting kuku paka was as a child on a family holiday to Zanzibar. Then add the chicken, coconut milk, salt and pepper.
Steps to make Kuku paka - African chicken curry:
- Prep your ingredients, if you use chicken tight with bone I would leave the bone in and take chicken skin out.
- Marinate your chicken with garlic, ginger, green chilli, a pinch of salt and turmeric. Leave it for 15-20 min.
- On a griddle pan, high heat, spray some vegetable oil and place chicken on the griddle pan leave them cook about 3-5 min on each side or until chicken nice and golden brown on both side.
- On a saucepan, medium heat, add coconut milk in and wait until coconut milk start boiling, add the rest of curry paste from marinate your chicken and you can add some water on the griddle pan to get those lovely sauce out and pour it in the saucepan too. Add chicken and green beans then sweet corn.
- Add some lemon juice, seasoning with salt and add some coriander. Stir well and turn off the heat
- Put some finely sliced red chilli on top before serve
Kuku Paka, a chicken-coconut curry, is a Swahili dish from the coast of Eastern Africa. It is also sometimes called an Ismaili dish, and it shows up on some Indian menus ??? which all makes sense when one considers that the Swahili civilization itself is a mixture of influences from Africa, Arabia, and India. Kuku paka is another delicious Swahili dish enjoyed with chapati, rice or naan! Coconut is added which uplifts the taste of the curry! Kuku Paka (Kenyan Chicken in Coconut Curry Sauce) This dish is so simple and sometimes referred to as kuku na nazi.
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