PEANUT & CHICKEN MACARONI | 30 MINUTE MEAL

This Peanut inspired Macaroni is so easy to prepare and really delicious! It is a comfort meal-it has a lot of my favourite ingredients, Coconut milk, Chicken, Peanut flavour, Suya Spice (I know! LOL). I hope you try this, I would love your feedback! The Recipe (measurements and description) is below, but if you want to watch how I prepare it instead of reading, click HERE

INGREDIENTS

500g Macaroni

3 Tablespoons Groundnut Oil

4 Cups Coconut Milk

3 Heaped Table Spoons of Peanut Butter

1 Cup Carrot (Chopped)

4 Table spoonsTomato Puree

2 Chicken Breast

Suya Spice

3 Scotch Bonnet 

2 Green Bell Peppers

1 Onion

1 Teaspoon Ginger

1 Teaspoon Garlic

1 Cub Chicken Stock

2 Seasoning Cubes

Salt to Taste

PREPARATION

• In a pot of boiling water, add a table spoon of groundnut oil and table spoon of salt, then add macaroni. Allow to boil for 7 minutes, transfer to a sieve and drain while running cold water over it to stop the cooking process.

• Cut Chicken breasts into byte sizes and season with soya paper and salt. Mix it till well coated with spice. 

• Heat up a non-stick pan and add 3 Tablespoons of groundnut oil and place chicken breasts to fry till browned  (about 4 minutes, 2 minutes on each side) then take it off the heat and set aside.

• In another pan, add groundnut oil, add onion then fry till translucent, add ginger, garlic and tomato puree, fry for about 6 minutes continuously stirring. Add Thyme and Seasoning to to the sauce.

• Add Carrots, Green Bell Pepper and Scotch Bonnet. fry for a minute.

• Add coconut milk and stir till you get a creamy texture. Add Chicken Stock and mix.

• Add Macaroni, then chicken breast and combine together. Add Peanut Butter and mix till it is well combined. Taste and adjust seasoning if necessary. 

• Cover and allow to cook for 2 minutes. 

• Serve Hot!