Cooking with Unmis: Stewing Chicken Stew

Ingredients:

1. 1 whole Stewing chicken (or chicken parts from your grocery store)
2. My Sauce
3. Tomato Paste
4. 1 large Onion
5. Spices (Italian Seasoning, Thyme, Salt, Knorr Chicken cubes)

Boiling the Stewing Chicken

1. Cut the chicken. (p.s. There’s an art to cutting this bird such that the parts are artistically distinguishable.)
2. Put all parts in the cooking pot.
3. Slice a quarter of the onion into the chicken
4. Add a tablespoon of Italian seasoning, salt, and 2 cubes of Knorr Chicken Stock
5. Add 3-4 cups of water
6. Cover pot with lid
7. Place on medium to high
8. Boil for 20-30 minutes or till tender.

Making the Stew

1. Pour 2-1/2 – 3 cups of My Sauce in a pot
2. Slice a 1/4-1/8 onion
3. Add spices (curry, thyme, white pepper, & paprika) as desired
4. Add a cup of oil
5. Cover and cook for 15-20 minutes or until the raw smell of pepper (from My Sauce) is gone.

Your Chicken Stew is ready. Eat over Steamed or Jollof Rice and/or add over Egusi or Ewedu when eating the Solids (such as Fufu, Eba, Farina, Amala, etc.)