Poulet moambé

Ingredients

Quantities for 5 servings.

• 1.5 kg Chicken, in pieces
• 800 g Palm fruit pulp, tinned
• 2 piece Onions
• 6 clove Garlic
• 30 g Ginger
• 2 piece Pili-pili chilli
• 2 piece Lemon
• 2 piece Aubergines
• 200 g Spinach
• 50 ml Vegetable oil
• 400 g Rice, to serve
• to taste Salt and pepper

Method

1. Rub the chicken with salt, pepper, garlic and lemon juice and leave it twenty minutes.
2. Brown the chicken in oil on all sides and lift it out.
3. Fry the onion with the ginger until soft, add the palm pulp and let it down with a cup of water.
4. Cook the sauce twenty minutes, stirring, until a layer of red oil rises to the surface.
5. Return the chicken, add the aubergine and the whole pili-piri and stew thirty minutes.
6. Stir in the spinach for the last five minutes and remove the chilli.
7. Serve with rice or with fufu made from cassava.