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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. Kuku Paka is an abbreviation for Kuku Wa Kupaka which means chicken in sauce.
To begin with this 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:
- Take 600 g chicken tight
- Take 2 tbsp minced ginger
- Get 1 tbsp minced garlic
- Get 1 tsp chilli powder or paprika
- Get 2-3 big green chilli
- Make ready 1 tin coconut milk
- Get Tin sweet corn (I got mix peas and sweet corn so I use that)
- Make ready 1 lemon
- Make ready 1 tsp turmeric
- Take Some salt
- Get 1 handful green beans
- Prepare 1 red chilli (finely chopped) for garnish
- Prepare 1 handful coriander
- Make ready 1-2 tbsp vegetable cooking oil
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. If you like, you can also use boneless, skinless Some recipes add potatoes or hard-boiled eggs to the curry.
Instructions 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
The potatoes can be cooked ahead, cut into chunks and stirred into the curry toward the end. Kuku Paka is a chicken dish with a coconut-based curry and is also called "kuku na nazi". It has Arabic, Indian and African influences. The dish is particularly popular in the East African coast and among the Indian communities living in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Kuku Paka is a spiced chicken and coconut curry dish that is full of exotic flavours.
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