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How to Prepare Homemade Kuku paka#4weekschallenge

 ·  ☕ 3 min read  ·  ✍️ Lettie Mitchell

Kuku paka#4weekschallenge
Kuku paka#4weekschallenge

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, kuku paka#4weekschallenge. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Kuku paka#4weekschallenge is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Kuku paka#4weekschallenge is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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. In a food processor, combine the tomatoes, onions, ginger, garlic, chiles, salt, cumin and coriander. Process until a rough paste forms. Kuku Paka (Chicken in coconut sauce) This dish is synonymous with Mombasa - Kenya, it is cooked in many homes by many women and sometimes men, but as with all popular dishes the recipe changes to accommodate differing palates, this is an authentic recipe from my friend who lives in Mombasa and makes my favourite form of kuku paka.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have kuku paka#4weekschallenge using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Kuku paka#4weekschallenge:
  1. Prepare 1 chicken quartered
  2. Take Salt to taste,
  3. Make ready Chilli flakes
  4. Get 1 tspn tumeric
  5. Take 1 1/2 tspn black pepper
  6. Prepare Juice of 1 lemon
  7. Make ready 1 little cumin powder
  8. Make ready 1 cup heavy coconut milk
  9. Take 1 TBS garlic ginger paste
  10. Take 1 tspns oil

Also called Kuku na Nazi, the dish is popular in parts of East Africa and among Indian communities living in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Paka in Swahili means to smear, to spread or to apply, and Kuku means chicken. Kuku Paka is an iconic Kenyan dish, one which represents many of the country's culinary influences, from local to European and even Indian. The thick sauce, made with coconut milk, is lightly sour, kicked up by the unique heat of its ginger-pepper-chile trio.

Instructions to make Kuku paka#4weekschallenge:
  1. In a large bowl, mix chilli flakes, salt, black pepper, cumin powder, garlic n ginger paste, tumeric, oil and the lemon to paste like
  2. Add the chicken to the bowl and spread the paste in and out of the pieces, making sure the paste is well distributed
  3. Cover n let marinate in fridge for 30 min
  4. On low charcoal heat, start grilling the chicken pieces, let them cook for 5 min and turn the other side and let it cook for the same duration
  5. Turn the pieces over and start drizzling the heavy coconut milk, ensuring equal distribution, as the side cooks turn over and repeat the process till the chicken is done

Kuku Paka is an iconic Kenyan dish, one which represents many of the country's culinary influences, from local to European and even Indian. The thick sauce, made with coconut milk, is lightly sour, kicked up by the unique heat of its ginger-pepper-chile trio. Kuku Paka is a Swahili chicken recipe that basically refers to grilled chicken in coconut sauce. It is a recipe that is particularly popular, especially in the coastal region of Kenya, and in Tanzania. Basically, making this East African Kuku Paka recipe involves two steps.

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