Tanzanian Curried Chicken-Banana Soup Recipe - Cooking Index
Piquant, sweet, aromatic, and succulent all at once -- this is a wonderful soup, reflective of the hot African sun of its origin.
Courses: Soup4 tablespoons | 60ml | Peanut oil |
1 | Chicken - (abt 3 lbs) - cut into pieces | |
1 | Onion - chopped | |
2 | Garlic cloves - chopped | |
2 tablespoons | 30ml | Curry powder |
1 tablespoon | 15ml | Dried red chile - ground to a powder |
2 teaspoons | 10ml | Freshly-ground black pepper |
8 cups | 1896ml | Chicken stock |
1 cup | 62g / 2.2oz | Tomato - peeled, chopped (large) |
(or 4 canned tomatoes) | ||
1 cup | 93g / 3.3oz | Grated coconut - (DON'T USE |
SWEETENED!) | ||
2 | Bananas - sliced into | |
Chunky quarter pieces |
In a Dutch oven, brown the chicken pieces in the oil. Remove chicken, reserving, and add the onion and garlic to the pot. Saute until soft, then stir in the powdered chile, the curry, and the black pepper and fry for 2 more minutes. Add the tomatoes, stock, chicken pieces, and coconut, bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes.
When the chicken is done, remove, let cool, then strip away the meat and cut it into bite-sized chunks, discarding the skin and bones. Add it back into the pot with the banana chunks. Simmer 10 minutes.
When ready to serve, ladle into bowls.
Serve hot to 4 people as a filling meal, with a frosty drink on the side to offset the red hot pepper.
Source:
Soup Of The Evening...Beautiful Soup at http://www.soupsong.com
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