Very easy to make chicken stew using either a slow cooker or on the hob.
You can serve it with a French stick, Tiger rolls, rice or Cassava.
Lovely unusual dish that will be a real talking point.
A few tips for making chicken stew
Fresh tomatoes are great for making stews, and will add extra flavour.
Please note the original recipe is slightly bland, add more cayenne pepper if you prefer it a bit spicier.
Chicken stew
Equipment
- 1 Slow Cooker
- 1 Chef Knife
- 1 Chopping Board
Ingredients
- 2 Chicken breasts
- 2 Sweet potato medium size
- 1 Onion large
- 4 cloves Garlic
- 500 ml Passata (or 1 can tomato juice)
- 1 can Chopped tomatoes
- 1 tbsp Ground cumin
- 1 tsp Cayenne pepper
- Salt and Pepper
Instructions
Step 1 – Prepare the ingredients
- – Chop the onion into small bit, chop & crush the garlic. Peel and cut the sweet potato into bite size bits2 Sweet potato, 1 Onion, 4 cloves Garlic
- – Cut the chicken breasts into bite size bits2 Chicken breasts
Step 2 – Prepare the sauce
- – Add all the ingredients (except chicken & sweet potato) into the slow cooker500 ml Passata, 1 can Chopped tomatoes, 1 tbsp Ground cumin, 1 tsp Cayenne pepper, Salt and Pepper
- – Mix well and then add the chicken & sweet potato bits
Step 3 – Make the stew
- – Heat on a low setting for 6 hours
Video
Nutrition
How to serve chicken cumin stew.
Serve with either
- A French stick, Tiger rolls or rice
- or ideally Cassava bread (gluten free bread that tastes a bit like white bread)
- Baton de Manioc (also called Chikwangue or cassava bread) – gluten free bread that tastes a bit like white bread.
- Or Fufu – similar to cassava but with a slightly sour taste
Cassava bread
In places like the Centra African Republic this recipe is often served with Cassava bread or Fufu. Neither of which you can buy in major shops. However Cassava flour is available from Amazon if you would like to make your own bread.
Lastly it is often enjoyed with a glass of banana wine or palm wine
The country recipe challenge.
I originally found this recipe when researching recipes in the Central African Republic and tastes lovely.
The beauty of food from the Central African Republic is that many meals use locally grown ingredients, such as cassava (see below), rice, squash, spinach, pumpkins and plantains. Similarly many meals include fish, chicken and game.
This recipe is part of my country recipe challenge, where I am trying to find 1 recipe from each country in the world.
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Have you made the recipe?
Would love to hear what you thought of it
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