STEW

STEW

STEW is tasty and rich tomatoes base sauce with rich spices.It is extremely popular in Nigeria mainly because it can serve as accompaniment to almost any meal. It is mostly served with boiled white rice. It can also be serve with boiled yam or plantain. Add cooked cooked okra and it can be served with fufu.It can also be serve on spagetti.

There are different variations depending on what is added;

Chicken stew
Palm oil stew
Beef stew
Assorted meat stew

Recipe for six servings

REQUIREMENTS

- 1.5kg chicken ( already cut or drumsticks)
- 6 fresh chilies/cayenne pepper/ atarodo
- 1 kg / 10-12 fresh tomatoes
- 2 red bell pepper
- 2 large onions - 2 clove garlic
- 1 teaspoonful grated ginger - 170g tin tomatoes puree/paste
- I teaspoon thyme
- 2 onions (sliced)
- 1 teaspoon curry
- 4 cooking spoonful vegetable
- seasonings
- salt to taste
What you do

Wash the chicken thoroughly and then season with salt, add 1 onion(sliced), 2 chopped cayenne pepper,grated ginger,crushed/grated garlic, thyme, curry and 2 cubed seasoning(eg maggi or knor). Add a little water and cook until tender.

Take out the chicken,and set the stock aside. You can then grill the cooked chicken or heat up half of the oil in a pan and fry the cooked chicken until brown but not too dry.

Ground the fresh tomatoes, 4 cayenne pepper/chilies, the 2 bell peppers and 1 whole onions together. Pour into a pot, heat up the mixture until all or most of the liquid/water dry up and it becomes a thick tomastoes paste.

In another pot, add 4 cooking spoonful vegetable oil, heat it up, add 1 sliced onion, stir and then add the boiled tomatoes paste, fry for 10 - 15 minutes, stirring at interval. Add the tin tomatoes puree/paste, stir and fry for 5 minutes. Stir in the chicken stock and cook for a further 2 minutes.

Finally add salt, seasonings and the fried or grilled chicken, allow to simmer for 5 minutes

Serve with Boiled rice and fried plantain or with boiled yam.

NB: Amount of pepper/chillies used depend on how hot or pepperish you like your food