Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, traditional kenyan chicken stew. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Traditional Kenyan Chicken Stew is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Traditional Kenyan Chicken Stew is something that I have loved my entire life.
Recipe of preparing chicken stew meal the Kenyan way: Chicken stew is one meal enjoyed by most people across Kenya though the Luhya community is known for it's undying love for this meal. There are different ways of preparing chicken but today we are going to feature chicken stew. Although Kenyan stew can be prepared with goat or chicken, the most popular and traditional version is made with chunks of beef, oil, onions, curry powder, tomatoes, coriander, and garlic. The base is typically prepared with ingredients such as peppers, peas, potatoes, and carrots.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have traditional kenyan chicken stew using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Traditional Kenyan Chicken Stew:
- Prepare 1 whole chicken
- Get Ginger
- Take Garlic
- Get Seasoning cube (maggi)
- Make ready Cumin (optional)
- Make ready Fennel (optional)
- Take Parsley or coriander
- Prepare 1 green pepper
- Make ready 1 habanero pepper
- Make ready 4-6 big tomatoes
- Get Crayfish
I love all things chicken and I quickly jumped at this suggestion hence the birth of this recipe. I decided to go all Kenyan on it and made chicken stew. An ideal Kenyan dining experience would normally have a buffet of food laid out on the table together with plates and silverware placed on the table. Kunde (A traditional vegetable, similar to black eyed peas).
Steps to make Traditional Kenyan Chicken Stew:
- Was the chicken pieces and place in a pot.
- Crush the fennel and cumin and add it to the chicken. Also add curry, maggi, salt, pounded fresh ginger and garlic. Cover the pot and allow to cook for an hour.
- When cooked, drain the water. (Sieve the chicken stock. Refrigerate or freeze. You can use it in other stews or for your jollof rice 😉). Keep the chicken aside and place a clean pot on fire and get the vegetables in order.
- Pour in your vegetable oil and the diced onion and garlic powder (or fresh garlic). Allow the onion to soften then pour in the chopped tomatoes. Leave on low heat for about 10 minutes to fry before adding the sliced green pepper.
- Add the chicken pieces and 2 maggi cubes. No need to put lots of seasoning because the chicken was boiled with enough. Cover the pot and leave to cook for a bit. Then add the choped parsley or coriander and a teaspoon of crayfish. Cover and let simmer for about 5 minutes and its ready.
An ideal Kenyan dining experience would normally have a buffet of food laid out on the table together with plates and silverware placed on the table. Kunde (A traditional vegetable, similar to black eyed peas). Terere (A traditional vegetable, greens from the amaranth plant). Kenyan stew can include a number of different meats: beef stew, goat stew, chicken stew or any other animal stew. Kenyan stew dishes might also include a few other base vegetable ingredients such as carrots, peppers, peas, or potatoes.
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