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Marina shares an awesome recipe for Fufu & Nigerian Chicken Stew just in time for Emancipation celebrations in Trinidad & Tobago. Fufu is a West African dish and is related to coocoo, a common dish in Trinidad & Tobago. The Nigerian chicken stew takes on a different approach to building flavors to our local stew chicken. However, the results are just as amazing!

Fufu & Nigerian Chicken Stew

Try Marina's delicious recipe for fufu & Nigerian chicken stew, perfect for Emancipation celebrations in Trinidad & Tobago.

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Course: Main Course

Cuisine: African, Nigerian, Tobago, Trinidad

Author: baidawi

Ingredients

Fufu Ingredients

5 cups cassava peeled & cubed
1 cup water

Nigerian Chicken Stew Ingredients

3 lbs chicken cut into pieces
1 yellow onion diced
6 cloves garlic
2 tbsp minced ginger
1 purple onion diced
4 tomatoes quartered
1 sweet pepper roughly chopped
1 scotch bonnet pepper
1 bay leaf
1 tsp curry powder
3-4 cups water
salt & black pepper to taste
¼ cup oil for frying

Instructions

Fufu

Place cassava & water in a blender then pulse until a smooth paste is formed
Transfer paste into a pot then cook for 5 to 8 minutes while stirring constantly with a wooden spoon
Once the cassava paste has thickened and cooked, transfer into serving portions into cling wrap
Wrap fufu portions individually into a ball in cling then leave to cool and set

Nigerian Chicken Stew

Bring 3 ½cups of water to a boil then add chicken pieces along with yellow onion, 4 cloves of garlic and ginger.
Season with salt & pepper to taste then boil chicken for 5 to 7 minutes
Add purple onion, tomatoes, sweet pepper, scotch bonnet pepper and ½ cup of water to a blender then blend until a smooth paste is formed
Remove chicken from pot making sure to drain off excess water then set aside
Save chicken broth in pot for later usage
Add oil to a pan then fry chicken pieces for approximately 2 minutes on each side until golden brown and crispy
Remove chicken from pan then add vegetable puree, season with salt & black pepper to taste
Cook vegetable puree for 5 minutes or until it changes to a deep red color
Add curry powder, bay leaf and chicken to pan then ladle approximate 2 cups of chicken broth
Cook mixture on medium heat for 15 minutes until gravy has thickened
Serve with Fufu & Enjoy!

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Fufu & Nigerian Chicken Stew