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

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Kuku paka - African chicken curry is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Kuku paka - African chicken curry is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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 particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have kuku paka - african chicken curry using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

Steps 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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