Name: Peanut-Crusted Chicken (my version of mafé)
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 20 min
Total time: 4 h 5 min
Yield: For 4 people
Cuisine: African
Ingredients: 3 tbsp vegetable oil; 3 tbsp peanut butter; 1 lemon; 1 mild/sweet chilli; 1 tbsp red nokoss; ⅓ cup (50 g) plain (all-purpose) flour; Salt and pepper; 1.5 kg (3 lb 5 oz) free-range chicken; ½ cup (50 g) breadcrumbs; 2 tbsp red nokoss; ⅓ cup (50 g) roasted peanuts; 2 eggs

Preparation info

For
4
people

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
4 hr 30

Appears in

Saka Saka

By Anto Cocagne and Aline Princet

Published 2022

About

Ingredients

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