This is my tweak on a recipe from the Congo Cookbook. According to their recipe, homemade peanut butter is often used. If you’d like to do it that way, you can grind your own at the grocery store, or whirl some roasted peanuts in your food processor if you happen to have them. But most of the time I make it with regular peanut butter and think it turns out fine.
West African Peanut Chicken
Ingredients
1/2 cup peanut oil (or any cooking oil)
4 chicken breasts, cut into bite-sized pieces (or equivalent dark meat)
3-4 onions, minced or pureed in food processor
2 cloves of garlic, minced
4 cups pureed tomatoes (or 3 c. tomato sauce and 1 c. water)
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 cup water
cayenne pepper or red pepper, black pepper, salt
Directions
Heat oil in a deep pot or very large heavy skillet. Add the chicken and fry on both sides until it is nicely browned. If your pan isn’t quite as wide as mine, you might do better frying half the chicken at a time, to keep the pieces separate and to let them get nicely brown. Remove the chicken and set aside.
Fry the onions and garlic in the same pot. When onion is soft and starting to brown, stir in tomatoes and water. Reduce heat and simmer for a few minutes. Return chicken to pot. Stir in peanut butter. it will look clumpy for a minute but will mix in nicely once it heats up. Add red pepper, salt, and pepper to taste. Simmer on low heat for 10-15 minutes.
Serve with rice.
This dish isn’t especially good looking, but it is great tasting. My husband and teenaged boys especially like it.
This is one I will try! I have a similar one for the crock pot that has carrots. Yum!
I must admit, that sounds much better than it looks! š
I’m going to try this recipe… How many servings is it?
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as-salaamu ‘alaikum. Looks like maffe guinaar.
-Saifuddin
I have been on the lookout for a Ethiopian cookbook. What do you use?
Hi there! Fell onto your website thanks to a link at CheapHealthyGood and thought this recipe looked amazing. I’ll be making it this weekend!
I’m always a fan of dishes that taste exotic yet can be made with basic, easy-to-find ingredients. Thanks for sharing!
Dan
Casual Kitchen
How did I miss this? This is mafe…one of our fav Senegalese dishes (that we ate in Mauritania). Yum! Thanks for the easy, Americanized recipe. I bet I could make that here in Morocco too.
I am absolutely going to try this recipe. I have no talent for cooking, but this doesnt look too hard!
Thank you for the photos and clear directions.
And I will also check out cheaphealthygood.com I had never heard of that one!
I made this for dinner tonight! Yum Yum! I am trying to be adventurous with my cooking and this fit the bill. Thank you!