Nigerian stew is one type of sauce or soup that is irresistibly tasty and the Yoruba’s call it ‘’obe ata’’. Nigerian stew can be cooked with palm oil or even vegetable, beef, goat meat or fish but in this article you will learn simple steps on how to prepare stew chicken. Chicken stew can be cooked with either soft or hard chicken, the choice is yours. But I must tell you the truth, some people do not know that chicken stew is best cooked with hard chicken – here I will be using hard layers, it tastes very much like the native chicken we know
Ingredients Needed For Nigerian Stew Recipe
- Chicken
- Tomatoes
- Paprika (tatashe)
- Fresh Pepper/Chilli
- 2 medium sized Onion
- Vegetable Oil/groundnut oil
- Curry and Thyme
- Ginger, Garlic & nutmeg (optional)
- Water and Salt to taste
- Seasoning cubes
- Optional: Chicken stock
Step 1
- Cut the chicken into the preferred size, wash and put it in a pot
- Chop one ball of onions and add it to the Chicken
- Quash the garlic and add it to the chicken
- Add some thyme and curry
- Add a wrap of 2 in one knorr chicken cube and salt to taste
- Pour some water (enough to cook the chicken) into the pot, cover the pot and put the pot on fire
- Leave the chicken to cook with medium heat until it is well cooked
Step 2
- Now blend the tomatoes, pepper , tatashe and ginger together
- Chop the onions into small pieces.
- When the chicken is well cooked.
- Transfer the chicken to a sieve to drain
- Get a clean dry pot
- Pour some vegetable oil and put it on fire
- Allow to the oil to heat
- Chop the second ball of onion
- Add the chopped onion into the oil and allow it to fry a bit
- Pour your blended tomatoes and pepper
- After 10 minutes, add the nutmeg powder
- Leave tomatoes to fry until the water is dry
Step 3
- Pour the stock (water used for boiling the chicken)
- Add some curry, little salt to taste and stock cubes
- Allow to boil for at least 10 minutes
- At this point the oil has come to settle at the top
- Your Nigerian chicken stew recipe is ready
Now You Know How to Cook Stew With Chicken
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Try this easy chicken stew recipe and let us know how it went. Happy cooking!
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