Peanut-Crusted Chicken (my version of mafé)

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: 1 mild/sweet chilli; 3 tbsp peanut butter; 2 tbsp red nokoss; ⅓ cup (50 g) plain (all-purpose) flour; 2 eggs; ½ cup (50 g) breadcrumbs; ⅓ cup (50 g) roasted peanuts; 3 tbsp vegetable oil; Salt and pepper; 1 tbsp red nokoss; 1 lemon; 1.5 kg (3 lb 5 oz) free-range chicken

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
1

Africa
Cameroon
Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Cote d'Ivoire
Senegal
Gabon
Main course

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