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. This wonderfully flavorful curry comes from Kenya, along the East African coast.

To get started 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:
  1. Take 600 g chicken tight
  2. Make ready 2 tbsp minced ginger
  3. Prepare 1 tbsp minced garlic
  4. Take 1 tsp chilli powder or paprika
  5. Take 2-3 big green chilli
  6. Get 1 tin coconut milk
  7. Take Tin sweet corn (I got mix peas and sweet corn so I use that)
  8. Take 1 lemon
  9. Make ready 1 tsp turmeric
  10. Prepare Some salt
  11. Get 1 handful green beans
  12. Get 1 red chilli (finely chopped) for garnish
  13. Make ready 1 handful coriander
  14. Make ready 1-2 tbsp vegetable cooking oil

This rich and comforting East African coconut chicken curry recipe is a real home-cooked favourite and is given added texture with the addition of hard boiled eggs. 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.

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

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. 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.

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