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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.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken yassa using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Yassa:
- Prepare 1 whole chicken cut into pieces
- Make ready 5 medium onions cut in slices
- Make ready 2 tbls dijon mustard
- Get 1 tbls garlic paste
- Make ready 1/2 cup lemon juice
- Prepare 3 tbls apple cider vinegar
- Get to taste Salt
- Make ready 1 whole habanero chilli
- Make ready 1 cup chicken broth
- Take Green olives to garnish
When I first heard about this chicken yassa recipe, I was really skeptical about the amount of onion called for in the marinade and sauce. 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. For the simplest yassa, make the marinade from just oil, lemon.
Instructions 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
Senegalese Chicken Yassa. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. 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. The chicken needs to marinate in the. Poulet Yassa. (Senegalese chicken with onions and lemon). Poulet yassa is a famous Senegalese dish that has become popular throughout Western Africa.
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