Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, rice and chicken(kuku kienyeji). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Rice and Chicken(Kuku kienyeji) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Rice and Chicken(Kuku kienyeji) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
As a Kenyan, I love kienyeji chicken because of the natural intense flavour. Thus the meat often tends to be tougher than broiler chicken but much more flavourful. Hello everybody, In today's video we make my style of kienyeji chicken and hands down the best way ever using a clay cooking pot.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have rice and chicken(kuku kienyeji) using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Rice and Chicken(Kuku kienyeji):
- Prepare Full chicken
- Get Vegetable oil
- Make ready Chicken stock
- Get 3 Tomatoes
- Get 1 onion
- Get 1 bunch coriander leaves
- Take Garlic
- Prepare 2 tablespoons Curry powder
- Prepare 1 tablespoon salt
- Prepare 3 glasses pishori rice
- Get 1 teaspoon turmeric powder for the rice
In a large bowl mix all the ingredients except chicken. Add in chicken and cover well with marinade. Kienyeji chicken is very different in flavour and texture from the broilers. It is tougher and hence requires more cooking time.
Steps to make Rice and Chicken(Kuku kienyeji):
- Ensure the chicken is cut into smaller pieces before boiling it for atleast 1 hour and put away some chicken stock once the meat is properly boiled.
- Put some vegetable oil in a cooking pot and fry one big chopped onion till it turns golden brown. Add the curry powder and salt at this point.
- Add in the tomatoes and allow it to cook for a while till it forms a thick red paste.
- Add the chopped garlic in the pot for some flavour.
- Once the main ingredients have cooked, add the chicken pieces you had boiled earlier in the cooking pot, and stir gently.
- Add the chicken stock to enable your chicken to have thick gravy and sprinkle the chopped corriander leaves on it then let it simmer for 15 minutes.
- For the rice, boil 6 glasses of water and once it boils add the turmeric, salt and some oil.
- Wash your rice and once its well drained put it in the pot with boiling water and let it cook till the rice puffs up.
- Serve your chicken with the rice and enjoy the meal.
In fact, it is not advisable to try and roast a kienyeji chicken. Unless it is a young one. Then add the chicken, coconut milk, salt and pepper. Adjust salt and pepper, to taste. Serve with with rice or chapatti.
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