Today I’m making a delicious pot of Nigerian palm oil chicken stew – rich spicy and perfect for rice, plantain, yam or your favourite Nigerian side dish.
I’m starting with the chicken, below is the step by step guide that explains how to clean chicken wings, season them well before cooking as well as how to transform the chicken into fried chicken wings.
How to make fried chicken wings
Here are the ingredients needed as well as the simple steps on how to make fried chicken wings.
Ingredients
- 1kg chicken wings
- 4 eggs
- 1 Onions
- 1/2 tbsp salt
- 1 tbsp thyme
- 1 tbsp curry
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg powder
- 2 Seasoning cubes
- 1 tsp crushed garlic
- 1 tsp crushed ginger
- Vegetable oil for frying
Step by step chicken cooking guide
- Defrost frozen chicken wings then transfer into a big bowl
- Pour enough water to cover the chicken in the bowl
- Then clean the chicken by removing the feathers and also scraping the skin with a kitchen knife
- Put the cleaned chicken in a pot
- Place the pot on the stove
- Season generously with sliced onions, 1 tbsp thyme, 1 tbsp curry, 2 seasoning cubes, 1/2 tsp nutmeg and 1/2 tbsp salt, 1 tsp crushed garlic, 1 tsp crushed ginger.
- Add 1 cup water and mix everything to combine well
- Clean raw eggs thoroughly with water and put it in the pot
- Boil for 25 minutes.
- Scoop cooked chicken into a colander the drain excess chicken stock
- Also remove the boiled eggs
- The liquid used for cooking the chicken is the chicken stock, save it for later
- Place a frying pan on the stove
- Pour vegetable oil into to frying pan and allow it get hot
- Put the cooked chicken in the hot oil
- Arrange them well so that the frying pan is not over-crowded
- Fry both sides till it looks well fried like the fried chicken photo below
- Remove the fried chicken from the oil and repeat the process till all the chicken have been fried.
Now let’s prepare delicious authentic Nigerian palm oil chicken stew.
How to make palm oil chicken stew
The ingredients you need to prepare delicious palm oil chicken stew is listed below.
Ingredients
- Fried chicken wings
- 4 boiled eggs
- 1/4 cup palm oil
- 2 Onions
- 1/2 tbsp salt
- 2 Seasoning cubes
- 1 tbsp Iru – locust beans
- 4 tomatoes
- 2 scotch bonnet peppers
- 2 bell peppers
- 1 green bell pepper
- 200g tomato paste
- 1 cup chicken stock
- 2 spoonful vegetable oil used for frying chicken wings
For this recipe, the chicken wings are fried for that golden colour and extra taste.
I will proceed to show you how to use the fried chicken and the other ingredients listed above to cook sumptuous chicken stew with palm oil.
Let’s cook
- Peel/remove egg shells from the boiled eggs
- Thoroughly clean the tomatoes and peppers in water
- Peel the skin of the onions, then blend with tomato and pepper till very smooth
- Carefully rinse iru with water to remove the salt used for preserving it
- Pour palm oil into a pot and place the pot on the stove
- Add some of the vegetable oil used for frying chicken
- Allow the oil to to get hot
- Gently add iru, let them sauté until fragrant
- Pour blended pepper and tomato mixture
- Add tomato paste, chicken stock, seasoning cubes and salt
- Mix well to combine
- Add boiled egg and cook for 20-25 mins
allow the excess moisture cook out so that the stew develops that deep, rich Nigerian flavour.
- After 25mins, mix well to ensure the stew doesn’t get burnt
- Add fired chicken and cook on medium heat for 10mins
- Reduce the heat, allow the stew simmer so that the oil can float on top
This stew is delicious with white rice, fried plantains, boiled yam, potatoes or even bread.
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