Recipe: Yummy Traditional Kenyan Chicken Stew

Traditional Kenyan Chicken Stew. Hi Guys, here is another simple chicken stew Kenyan style recipe. For this recipe i used broiler chicken which cooks much faster than kienyeji chicken. However if you prefer kienyeji, see recipe here.

Chicken Stew- kuku kienyeji is one of the heartiest meals on the face of the earth. I added more soul to this recipe ingredients you can readily get. I love all things chicken and I quickly jumped at this suggestion hence the birth of this recipe. You can have Traditional Kenyan Chicken Stew using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Traditional Kenyan Chicken Stew

1. You need of whole local chicken.
2. You need of tomatoes.
3. Prepare of red pepper.
4. You need of Scotch bonnet.
5. It's of small onions.
6. You need of salt.
7. Prepare of Maggi cube seasoning.
8. Prepare of curry.
9. Prepare of ginger.
10. Prepare of glove garlic.
11. You need of coriander seed.
12. It's of cookspoon vegetable oil.

I decided to go all Kenyan on it and made chicken stew. Recipe video i did for a company that makes smart jikos. You may need to get one for yourself. Recipe of preparing chicken stew meal the Kenyan way: Chicken stew is one meal enjoyed by most people across Kenya though the Luhya community is known for it's undying love for this meal.

Traditional Kenyan Chicken Stew step by step

1. Clean, cut local chicken into pieces.
2. Rinse and pound garlic with ginger. Rinse and chop onions set aside.
3. Put the chicken into pot, add salt, 1 Maggi, half of the pound garlic and ginger with small onion and coriander seed.
4. Add quantity of water, cover to boil till soft (50 minutes).
5. In another pot on fire, put vegetable oil, add remaining onion, garlic and ginger (if interested) stir fry a while.
6. Add the grounded tomato, pepper, and scotch bonnet (paste).
7. Add in chicken, and seasoning then stir in the chicken stock.
8. Cover and allow to simmer for 5 minute.
9. Traditional chicken stew is ready to serve.

There are different ways of preparing chicken but today we are going to feature chicken stew. Kenyan stew can include a number of different meats: beef stew, goat stew, chicken stew or any other animal stew. Kenyan stew dishes might also include a few other base vegetable ingredients such as carrots, peppers, peas, or potatoes. Fry the Chicken pieces with chopped Onion and a tablespoon of gravy browning. Kenyan stews are characterized by chunks of meat, potatoes, carrots and other small vegetables boiled down with a few spices to make a flavorful soupy stew.