kuku

Kuku Wa kupaka

(Chicken in coconut sauce)
Ingredients
3 lb chicken cut into 8 pieces
1 teaspoon garlic paste
1 teaspoon ginger paste
1 teaspoon crushed green chilli
2 fresh green chillies
Juice of 1 lemon
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
2 cups coconut milk
1 small finely chopped onion
1medium chopped tomato
2 tablespoons of salt to taste
chopped coriander for garnishing

Method
Marinate chicken pieces in garlic, ginger, chillies, lemon juice, salt and 1 tablespoon oil and leave for 1 - 2 hours. Saute finely chopped onion in one tablespoon of oil, add chopped tomato and mix thoroughly on a medium heat. Add two fresh green chillies, lemon juice and coconut milk and stir all the time to make a thick gravy on a low heat. Put aside. Roast chicken pieces on charcoal or in an oven for 10 -1 5 minutes until cooked. Place chicken in a dish, pour the thick coconut sauce over the roasted chicken and again put the dish in the oven for 10 minutes basting the chicken with the gravy from time to time.Serve with rice, chapati, mandazi or mkate mimina and garnish with chopped coriander.The same method can be used for Fish (Samaki wakuPaka)