SUNDAY SPECIAL || FRIED STEW

RECIPE

•   The first step is to wash your tomato, pepper
  and onion.
• Blend tomato, onion and pepper, according to the
  desired quantity; my stew is always extra hot so I add more pepper
  than most people and I mostly blend a whole onion.

•      Pour the blended mixture in a pot and boil. Boil
  the mixture till it is as dry as possible. When you’re satisfied, pour it in a
  tight sieve to drain any excess water. This is to ensure that the stew is dry
  and fries quickly.

•  While boiling the mixture, you can prepare your
  chicken if you haven’t done so. I add curry, thyme, mixed spices , knorr
  aromat, onion, ginger, salt, knorr cube to my chicken. If it is soft tender
  chicken, I do not add water. I allow it to steam on low heat. If it is hard
  chicken aka old layer, I add water but I always make sure the water is little
  so that the stock can be concentrated

•    When chicken is cooked, I heat a pan of oil, I peel
  a small whole onion and drop it in the pan. I always do this when frying beef
  or stew, the aroma is ooo la lacious! Try it! After adding the onion, I add the
  chicken and fry.

•  Heat the pot you will use for cooking the stew,
  add the oil used in frying the chicken/beef, add chopped onions, add a cube of
  maggi/knorr and some curry. The aroma this produces for your stew is amazing.
  Your neighbours will start knocking your door.

•     When the onion is fried, add the tomato mixture
  and stir continuously. Now reduce the pressure of your cooker because it is
  best fried on medium heat. The stew does not take long to get ready when you
  start frying, probably an extra 6 minutes will do. Keep stirring, make sure it
  does not burn; this is not party jollof rice. DO NOT add salt or any extra
  spice so that your food is not over salted. Remember, at the end you are going
  to add the chicken stock to the stew, which is already spiced.

•     After it has stewed a little, I add the
  beef/chicken/turkey and allow to keep stewing. I do not cover the pot at all in
  this stew process.

•    Taste to see if it is as cooked as you like, and
  then lastly add the beef/chicken stock and mix everything together. Taste for
  salt, if you need more, you can add at this point. However, I never need to do
  that.

• Turn
  off the stew and allow to simmer.