Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, kuku paka - african chicken curry. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. 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 well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Kuku paka - African chicken curry is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have kuku paka - african chicken curry using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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

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

Marinate the chicken in garlic, ginger, salt, pepper, green chutney, and lemon. In a blender, place coconut milk, tomato, turmeric, lemon, onions, green chutney, and salt and blend well till smooth. 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.

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

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. Kuku Paka (Kenyan Chicken in Coconut Curry Sauce) This dish is so simple and sometimes referred to as kuku na nazi. This kuku paka recipe is a favourite amongst the family.

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