Moambe chicken
Moambe chicken, from above
Non vegKinshasa

Moambe chicken

Chicken braised in rich palm nut sauce with tomato and chilli. The Congo's national dish.

75 minTime
43 gProtein each
mediumSpice
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Grandma's wayChicken in palm nut sauce with tomato and chilli.
The original
547kcalsame
43 gproteinsame
3 gfibresame
75minutessame

Classic poulet à la moambe.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

6 servings
Chicken, curry cut (bone in chicken, small pieces)1 large chicken, jointed
Palm nut cream½ tin palm nut cream (moambe)
Onion2, chopped
Tomato2, chopped
Garlic5 cloves
Scotch bonnet chilli (habanero or scotch bonnet pepper, habanero chilli)1
Cooking oil (vegetable oil)1½ tbsp
Water1¼ cups
Saltto taste

Method

4 steps
  1. 1Season and brown the chicken in oil.
  2. 2Add onion, garlic and tomato and cook until soft.
  3. 3Stir in the palm nut cream, water and pepper and simmer covered until the chicken is tender and cooked through with no pink.
  4. 4Uncover and reduce until the sauce coats the chicken.
Serve it like this

Serve in a deep dish with rice or fufu on the side and a bowl of stewed greens.

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What goes with Moambe chicken: a bread or rice, a side, something to drink and something sweet.

Bread or rice Jeera rice30 min
Bread or rice Methi thepla40 min
On the side Fufu50 min
On the side Coconut chutney10 min
To drink Sol kadhi40 min
Something sweet Puran poli90 min
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