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. Kuku paka is a chicken and coconut curry popular across East Africa, such as Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda.

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

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

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

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. 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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