Peanut-Crusted Chicken (my version of mafé)

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Preparation info
  • For

    4

    people
    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      4 hr 30

Appears in
Saka Saka: Adventures in African cooking, south of the Sahara

By Anto Cocagne and Aline Princet

Published 2022

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Ingredients

  • 1.5 kg (3 lb 5 oz) free-range chicken
  • 1

Method

Preparation

Clean the chicken the day before, or at least 2 hours prior to cooking, and remove the breasts and thighs from the bones. Set the carcass aside for the sauce. Juice the lemon.

Coat the chicken pieces with the lemon juice and nokoss and season with salt and pepper. Leave to marinate in the fridge.

To make the sauce, break up the chicken carcass. Heat the oil