Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, traditional kenyan chicken stew. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Traditional Kenyan Chicken Stew is one of the most favored of current 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’ve loved my whole 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. Kenyan stew can include a number of different meats: beef stew, goat stew, chicken stew or any other animal stew.
To begin with this recipe, we must first 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:
- Make ready 1 whole chicken
- Get Ginger
- Get Garlic
- Prepare Seasoning cube (maggi)
- Take Cumin (optional)
- Take Fennel (optional)
- Prepare Parsley or coriander
- Take 1 green pepper
- Make ready 1 habanero pepper
- Get 4-6 big tomatoes
- Get Crayfish
Serve into portions and pour the chicken over. Kenyan stews are characterized by chunks of meat, potatoes, carrots and other small vegetables boiled down with a few spices to make a flavorful soupy stew. Not exactly a traditional dish, but burgers and various forms of Kenyan style french fries are common throughout the country. 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.
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.
The base is typically prepared with ingredients such as peppers, peas, potatoes, and carrots. List of Top Kenya Traditional Dishes. Kenya has it's own indigenous menus. Different Communities have different menus unique to their livelihood. eg. Fry the Chicken pieces with chopped Onion and a tablespoon of gravy browning.
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