Chicken Palaver
Rich, hearty chicken palaver built around chicken breast. Low and slow for maximum flavour.
Ingredients
- 1 chicken breast
- 1 tspn peanut butter (see note 2)
- 1 tspn garlic (crushed)
- 100 - 200 ml chicken stock
- 15 gm butter
- Ā½ tspn dried thyme
- 1 tbspn oil
- 50 gm spinach (see note 3)
- 50 gm onion (prepared weight)
- 1 tspn red or green chilli (chopped)
- 3 tbspn chopped tomato (see note 1)
- Ā¼ tspn salt
- freshly ground black pepper to taste
Method
- 1
Crush the garlic.
- 2
Cut the chicken into finger sized strips and mix in the crushed garlic with a little salt and pepper.
- 3
Finely chop the onion.
- 4
Deseed and chop the red or green chilli.
- 5
Chop the spinach.
- 6
Heat the butter in a non-stick frying pan and fry the chicken strips for about until brown on all sides, then remove to a plate and set aside.
- 7
Heat the oil in a saucepan over a high flame and cook, stirring regularly, the onion and chopped tomatoes for .
- 8
Reduce the heat to medium and stir in the peanut butter and 50 ml of the chicken stock and cook, stirring, for .
- 9
Stir in another 50 ml of chicken stock, thyme, spinach, chilli, salt and pepper, return the chicken to the pan and simmer, covered, stirring regularly, for 10 - , adding a little more stock or hot water as needed to prevent drying.
- 10
Serve with boiled potatoes (boiled yams would traditionally be used) or rice.