Kuku paka - African chicken curry
Kuku paka - African chicken curry

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, kuku paka - african chicken curry. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

This simple dish, sometimes called kuku na nazi, is a fabulous chicken coconut curry from the East African coast. 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. The word ' kuku' means ' chicken' in Swahili and many believe that 'paka' refers to a dish made with coconut milk.

Kuku paka - African chicken curry is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Kuku paka - African chicken curry is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have kuku paka - african chicken curry using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

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

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. This desi inspired East African dish is called kuku paka.

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

The dish is particularly popular in the East African coast and among the Indian communities living in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. This desi inspired East African dish is called kuku paka. The spices in this dish are a recognition of the population of the Indian subcontinent who were born and raised in parts of East Africa learning Swahili or other dialects along with Punjabi or Urdu (like my father and his entire family). 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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