This popular African food is also a national dish of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The dish is made with chicken, moambe (palm butter), and spices.
Ingredients and requirements:
- Pot
- 6 tbsp of peanut oil
- 3 lbs of chicken parts
- Three green onions (chopped)
- Two onions (chopped)
- Three cloves of garlic (chopped
- 1 tbsp of grated ginger root
- One teaspoon of red pepper flakes
- A tin of Tomato puree
- 1 6 oz. can of tomato paste
- ½ cup of natural palm butter
- A cup of water
- Salt
Directions:
- Wash the chicken, and then pat dry it. Put 4 tbsp of peanut oil on high heat and let it get hot. Then add the chicken and let it brown on both sides. Remove the chicken from the pot when you’re done.
- Turn down the heat to medium-low and add the remaining oil into the pot.
- Put the onions and let it saute until it turns golden
- Add the tomato paste and puree. Then add the green onions, garlic, red pepper flakes, ginger, salt, and water. Mix everything.
- Return the chicken to the pot and mix well with the sauce. Turn the heat to high and leave to boil, then reduce it to low and cover it. Leave it to simmer for 20 mins.
- Remove a cup of sauce and mix with the palm butter, then return it to the pot and mix well.
- Leave it uncovered and let it cook for 10 mins or more until the chicken is done.
- You can now serve your moambe chicken and eat it alone or with other foods of your choice.
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