Kuku paka - African chicken curry
Kuku paka - African chicken curry

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This east African dish is one of the easiest "curries" you could ever make. Kuku is the Swahili word for chicken, and paka is the Bengali word for delicious. This wonderfully flavorful curry comes from Kenya, along the East African coast.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook kuku paka - african chicken curry using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Kuku paka - African chicken curry:
  1. Get 600 g chicken tight
  2. Prepare 2 tbsp minced ginger
  3. Take 1 tbsp minced garlic
  4. Make ready 1 tsp chilli powder or paprika
  5. Prepare 2-3 big green chilli
  6. Make ready 1 tin coconut milk
  7. Prepare Tin sweet corn (I got mix peas and sweet corn so I use that)
  8. Get 1 lemon
  9. Make ready 1 tsp turmeric
  10. Take Some salt
  11. Get 1 handful green beans
  12. Prepare 1 red chilli (finely chopped) for garnish
  13. Prepare 1 handful coriander
  14. Prepare 1-2 tbsp vegetable cooking oil

For authentic flavor, grill the chicken pieces before stirring them into the simmering sauce. If you like, you can also use Some recipes add potatoes or hard-boiled eggs to the curry. The potatoes can be cooked ahead, cut into chunks and stirred into the curry toward the end. Variations: For authentic flavor, grill the chicken pieces before stirring them into the simmering sauce.

Instructions to make Kuku paka - African chicken curry:
  1. Prep your ingredients, if you use chicken tight with bone I would leave the bone in and take chicken skin out.
  2. Marinate your chicken with garlic, ginger, green chilli, a pinch of salt and turmeric. Leave it for 15-20 min.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Add some lemon juice, seasoning with salt and add some coriander. Stir well and turn off the heat
  6. Put some finely sliced red chilli on top before serve

If you like, you can also use boneless, skinless Some recipes add potatoes or hard-boiled eggs to the curry. The potatoes can be cooked ahead, cut into chunks and stirred into the curry toward the end. Kuku Paka is a spiced chicken and coconut curry dish that is full of exotic flavours. Also called Kuku na Nazi, the dish is popular in parts of East Africa and among Indian communities living in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Paka in Swahili means to smear, to spread or to apply, and Kuku means.

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