
Cameroon / Main
Poulet DG
Fried chicken with fried plantain and vegetables. The dish called "the director general's chicken".
Ingredients
- Chicken, in pieces1.4 kg
- Plantains, ripe but firm4
- Carrots3
- Green beans200 g
- Bell peppers2
- Onions2
- Tomatoes3
- Garlic5 cloves
- Ginger30 g
- Scotch bonnet1
- Thyme3 sprigs
- Oil for frying300 ml
- Salt and pepperto taste
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 6 steps
Marinate the chicken in crushed garlic, ginger, thyme, salt and pepper for half an hour.
Fry the chicken in oil until browned all over and lift it out.
Cut the plantain into large pieces and fry it in the same oil, to caramelised edges.
Pour off most of the oil and fry the onion, tomatoes and pepper until soft.
Return the chicken, add the carrot, beans and the whole scotch bonnet, pour in a cup of water and stew twenty minutes.
Remove the chilli, fold in the plantain and warm it three minutes. Serve at once.

