
DR Congo / Main
Poulet moambé
Chicken in a sauce of palm fruit pulp. The national dish of the Congo.
Ingredients
- Chicken, in pieces1 1/2 kg
- Palm fruit pulp, tinned800 g
- Onions2
- Garlic6 cloves
- Ginger30 g
- Pili-pili chilli2
- Lemon2
- Aubergines2
- Spinach200 g
- Vegetable oil50 ml
- Rice, to serve400 g
- 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 7 steps
Rub the chicken with salt, pepper, garlic and lemon juice and leave it twenty minutes.
Brown the chicken in oil on all sides and lift it out.
Fry the onion with the ginger until soft, add the palm pulp and let it down with a cup of water.
Cook the sauce twenty minutes, stirring, until a layer of red oil rises to the surface.
Return the chicken, add the aubergine and the whole pili-piri and stew thirty minutes.
Stir in the spinach for the last five minutes and remove the chilli.
Serve with rice or with fufu made from cassava.
