Chicken Yassa
Chicken Yassa

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It's one of those simply delicious dishes: just a few ingredients that are transformed, by the magic of cooking, into an exciting and comforting meal. Chicken, lots of onions, lemon juice, garlic, dijon mustard and one hot pepper to infuse a perfect amount of kick. Mix onions, lemon juice, red wine vinegar, Dijon mustard, garlic, habanero pepper, and bay leaves together in a large pot.

Chicken Yassa is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chicken Yassa is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this 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:
  1. Make ready 1 whole chicken cut into pieces
  2. Make ready 5 medium onions cut in slices
  3. Make ready 2 tbls dijon mustard
  4. Take 1 tbls garlic paste
  5. Get 1/2 cup lemon juice
  6. Prepare 3 tbls apple cider vinegar
  7. Take to taste Salt
  8. Make ready 1 whole habanero chilli
  9. Take 1 cup chicken broth
  10. Prepare Green olives to garnish

The chicken marinated in lemon and onion was served with rice in a brightly decorated enamel basin. Chicken Yassa is a Senegalese stew which is also known as Yassa au poulet. The chicken is marinated with lemon and mustard for hours before it been cooked. This sauce is popular all over West Africa, it can be found in Gambia, Guinea, Ivory coast and many other African countries..

Steps to make Chicken Yassa:
  1. For the marinade, mix in the dijon mustard, lemon juice, vinegar, garlic and salt and set aside
  2. 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
  3. Let the chicken marinate for 4 hours to overnight (the longer the better)
  4. In a heavy skillet, heat 2 tbls of vegetable oil and brown the chicken pieces on both sides and set aside.
  5. Add the marinade with the onions onto the skillet and sauté for about 5 minutes until the onions caramalise
  6. 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
  7. 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.
  8. Once chicken is cooked through, remove from heat and serve warm with plain white rice

A popular, Senegalese dish, this tender chicken is marinated in an onion-lemon-vinegar mixture that then cooks down into a completely delectable sauce that is amazing. Stir to mix well, then bring the yassa slowly to a boil. Yassa Chicken (Poulet au Yassa)- A Super Popular Senegalese succulent chicken with caramelized onions and mustard. If you love onions you will love this onion extravaganza of incredibly moist and flavorful Senegalese dish. Chicken Yassa or Poulet Yassa is one of the most popular traditional Senegalese dish made with Chicken, caramelized onions, lemon, and a mixture of flavors and spices, which typical of African cuisine.

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