Benin Chicken Peanut Sauce

• Benin Chicken Peanut Sauce

Chicken breast cubed
6 tbsp peanut butter unsweetned
4 cup water
oil
5 green onions
2 garlic clove minced
2 fresh diced tomatos
2 tsp thyme powder
7 carrots
2 sweet potatos
3 cup shredded cabbage
salt

Bring water to broil and add peanut butter. Simmer for 20 min. then cool and remove the extra fat from the surface. Fry chicken in oil, add green onions, then add garlic, stir, add, thyme and salt, stir, add tomato, carrot and cabbage. Stir and fry for 1 min. Then add peanut sauce, bring to broil then reduce and simmer for 20 min. cover in. Add sweet potato and cook for another 40 minutes. Taste often, need a lot of salt. I like it but I had to add more salt. It's not a stronge taste witch is good for kids. Enjoy.

Benin Beef Stew

• Benin Beef Stew

Beef cubed for stew

5 Green onions

3 tbsp curry powder

2 tsp salt

pepper cayenne

1 can of coconut milk

2 sweet potatoes cut in cube deep fried

1 tbsp flour

4 tbsp butter

4 tbsp unsweetened peanut butter

4 garlic clove minced

1 hot red chili, sliced big

1 cup water

6 whole Okra, jst remove the top

First brown the beef in butter and remove. Saute green onions and garlic in the remaining butter. Add flour, mix constantly, add curry powder, salt, pepper, peanut butter. Heat for a minute at mid heat. Add coconut milk but little by little, stir all the time. Slowly add water. Cook until the sauce thinckens. Add the meat and chili. Cook for 2 hours. 20 minutes before the end add okra and sweet potatoes. It's a very nice recipe but be careful, it can be hot for children, don't add to much chili. My husband loved it, it's one of his favorite recipe. Enjoy.

Next Country Benin (West Africa)

Next week we pick Benin as the country that we will visit in dishes. Benin is in the west africa continent. They have a lot of different type of food. We will do the traditionnal Red sauce, Beef stew, Fish stew, Chicken with peanut sauce, and dish of rice. I hope you enjoy the food and the recipe.

La semaine prochaine, nous choisissons le Bénin, comme le pays que nous visiterons en plats. Le Bénin est dans le continent d'afrique de l'ouest. Ils ont beaucoup de différents types d'aliments. Nous ferons la sauce traditionnelle rouge, Ragoût de boeuf, ragoût de poisson, poulet sauce aux arachides et un plat a base de riz. J'espère que vous profitez de la gastronomie et des recettes.