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Chicken Yassa is scrumptious West African comfort food that the whole world needs to know about. Delicious tender chicken and lots of caramelized onions in a sweet, spicy, lemony sauce. Yassa Chicken (Poulet au Yassa)- A Super Popular Senegalese succulent chicken with caramelized onions and mustard.
Chicken Yassa is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chicken Yassa is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken yassa using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Yassa:
- Take 1 whole chicken cut into pieces
- Prepare 5 medium onions cut in slices
- Get 2 tbls dijon mustard
- Get 1 tbls garlic paste
- Get 1/2 cup lemon juice
- Take 3 tbls apple cider vinegar
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Get 1 whole habanero chilli
- Prepare 1 cup chicken broth
- Take Green olives to garnish
A page on how to cook Gambian Chicken Yassa, (Yassa Gannarr). Let the chicken marinate for at least one hour. (For the best results you can keep the chicken marinating in the fridge for several. This Poulet Yassa also called Chicken Yassa is chicken cooked in caramelized onions - one of West Africa's favorite dishes! This traditional chicken dish from the Casamance region of Senegal is one of the most famous It is also very good when made with fish.
Steps to make Chicken Yassa:
- For the marinade, mix in the dijon mustard, lemon juice, vinegar, garlic and salt and set aside
- In a ziplock bag, add the chicken and onion and mix to combine. Then, add in the marinade and mix in the bag. Making sure all pieces are equally coated
- Let the chicken marinate for 4 hours to overnight (the longer the better)
- In a heavy skillet, heat 2 tbls of vegetable oil and brown the chicken pieces on both sides and set aside.
- Add the marinade with the onions onto the skillet and sauté for about 5 minutes until the onions caramalise
- Cooking in the skillet: move the onions to the side and arrange the chicken at the bottom of the skillet. Then chuck the onions ontop of the chicken. Add in the chicken broth and cover the skillet. Allow the chicken to simmer and cook for 45 minutes over low heat. Make sure the liquid doesnt dry up. If it does, add some more chicken broth
- Cooking in the oven: arrange the chicken in the bottom of an oven proof dish and pour the onion marinade over the chicken. Add in the broth and cook in a preheated oven (at 180 degrees Celsius) for 45-50 minutes.
- Once chicken is cooked through, remove from heat and serve warm with plain white rice
For the simplest yassa, make the marinade from just oil, lemon. Make the marinade the night before you are serving Chicken Yassa. Combine all the ingredients for the marinade. Place the chicken breasts in a bowl, baking dish, or plastic bag. Yassa, also known as chicken yassa or poulet yassa, is Senegal's national dish, a stew consisting of chicken that is marinated in lemon, lots of onions, and vinegar.
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