West African Chicken and Sweet Potato Stew
This chicken stew has a base of onions simmered with tomatoes and chilli till they practically melt in your mouth.
Ingredients
Instructions
Prep:
Pre heat the oven to fan assisted 160C / 180C / 350F / gas 4.
Season sweet potatoes with ½ tsp coriander, ½ tsp ginger, salt, pepper and 1 tsp oil and mix well.
Season the chicken with 1 jumbo cube (or 1 tsp ground coriander, 1 tsp ground ginger and salt).
Cook:
Bake sweet potato in the oven for up to 30 mins till they are done. Make sure to stir them at least once during baking so that they cook evenly on all sides
Heat the remaining oil in a non stick pan and fry the chicken pieces on medium heat till they are done. Remove them from the pan and set them aside
In the same pan add in the onions, garlic, peppers, scotch bonnet and bay leaves and stir fry for a minute until fragrant.
Then add in the water, cover and simmer for about 40 mins till the onions are soft stirring occasionally.
Keep an eye on the water level and if it get gets too dry you might need to add in a few tbsp of water.
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Tips:
You can substitute the scotch bonnet with chillies of you choice.
Jumbo cubes (and maggi cubes) are stock cubes used to flavour food in West Africa. You normally find them in shops selling ethnic food. If you can't find one then replace the water with stock of your choice.
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Reviews from the Original Source
The kids love sweet potato. I love chicken. I think that we're all going to enjoy this stew on one of our "world cook off" nights! Thanks.
Hello Bintu,
This sounds so heartwarming and I can totally understand why you would want to cram in as much as you could . It's a refreshing alternative to soups in the cold brrrr weather we have right now. I am so Indian in my tastes and always love the dash of chilli and yes anything with rice is so so morish !
Cheers!
M
OMG Bintu! This is stunning. I want to make this right now. I have chicken thighs in the freezer and I now know what to do with them.
Did you make this recipe?
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