Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, kuku paka - african chicken curry. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Kuku paka - African chicken curry is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Kuku paka - African chicken curry is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

Add the tomatoes and coconut milk, stir well, and return the chicken to the pot, covering with the rich curry sauce. Kuku paka, is a shortened word for "Kuku wa paka" or "Kuku ya Paka"; and is basically coconut chicken curry. This East African chicken curry is not too far off from an Indian curry and it shows the influences of Indians on East African cuisine. Traditionally, the chicken used for Kuku paka is cooked slowly over the smoke pit or on the.

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

The ingredients needed to make Kuku paka - African chicken curry:

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

Kuku paka, an East African-Indian dish that's traditionally made with charcoal-grilled chicken in a spiced coconut milk sauce and served over rice, is comforting, sweet, creamy, and well-balanced. Kuku Paka, an East African-style chicken curry is a boldly seasoned chicken infused with exotic flavors of Africa. We've been on a curry kick lately. For the past couple of weeks, I can't count how many times I have made curry for dinner, and the family hasn't complained once.

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

We've been on a curry kick lately. For the past couple of weeks, I can't count how many times I have made curry for dinner, and the family hasn't complained once. My guess is, they aren't tired of it yet. Kuku Paka is an abbreviation for Kuku Wa Kupaka which means chicken in sauce. This dish is very popular among the Asian Indian residents of Kenya.

So that’s going to wrap this up with this exceptional food kuku paka - african chicken curry recipe. Thanks so much for your time. I’m confident that you can make this at home. There is gonna be interesting food in home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to save this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!