West African Peanut Chicken

Submitted by Little Bee

"This is my Contribution for the Zarr World Tour. Haven't tried it yet but it sounds good! Tell me what you think,"

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 3 lbs chicken breasts or 3 lbs chicken thighs
• 1⁄2 cup cooking oil
• 2 medium onions, chopped
• 2 -3 garlic cloves, chopped

• SAUCE

• 2 cups chicken broth (heated to simmering)
• 1⁄2 cup crunchy peanut butter
• 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
• salt
• black pepper
• red cayenne pepper
• chopped peanuts

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Remove chicken skins; wash and pat dry.
3. Brown chicken in oil, a few pieces at a time, and remove from heat.
4. Brown onion and garlic; remove from heat.
5. Place chicken, onion, and garlic in casserole dish.
6. In a medium bowl, blend chicken broth, peanut butter, and tomato paste. Add seasonings and chopped peanuts; pour over chicken.
7. Bake covered, 45 minutes to 1 hour or until chicken is tender.
8. Serve over hot cooked rice. Serves 4.

Reviews

[rosslare]

This turned out to be a really flavourful dish, after a few changes and an addition. I used butter and only about 2 tbs. I added all the sauce ingredients to the frying pan with the onions and continued to cook them until all was well blended. I only used 4 oz tomato paste, anything more would have totally overpowered the subtle peanut flavour. There was still something missing, so I added 2 tbs curry paste, and voila! Fantastic! Just what was needed. Then, carried on in oven as instructed. Worthy all 5 stars after these little alterations, for us.

 

[Chef skosko]

I would actually give this 3.5 stars. We liked it quite a bit. I also used only enough oil to coat the pan (maybe 2 tbsp), which was plenty and used reduced fat JIF peanut butter. The only thing that kept us from loving this dish was that for some reason it just didn't have a melody of flavor like I thought it would. The peanut butter sort of took over. I did only use a small amount of cayenne (because of my 6 year old) maybe more would make a difference.

 

[BonnieZ]

This was a very tasty meal, although I made several changes for dietary reasons to make it a healthier meal. I used a mixture of boneless, skinless chicken breasts and boneless skinless chicken thighs and found that 1 tbsp of oil was more than enough to saute the onion and garlic and brown the chicken. I think if you used the half cup of oil specified the dish would be very greasy. I also used natural peanut butter which further cuts the fat and also does not have addded sugars or salt. For our taste, I omitted the salt, used 1/4 tsp of black pepper and 1/2 tsp of cayenne which added the right amount of heat to balance the peanut sauce. I served this with rice, although potatoes or even sweet potatoes would be a nice accompanyment. Thank you Little Bee for sharing the recipe.