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Dinner · 40 min · 4 bowls

Peanut chicken stew

West African maafe logic. Loosen peanut butter in the tomato so it becomes sauce.

The sheet · 4 bowls · 40 min

easy

Why tonight. West African maafe logic. Loosen peanut butter in the tomato so it becomes sauce.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • chicken
  • peanut butter
  • tomato
  • onion
  • ginger

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: chili flakes, lime.

Method

  1. Loosen the peanut butter with hot stock in a bowl first. Dropped into the pot in a lump it never disperses and it catches on the base.
  2. Brown the chicken hard, then onion, ginger and tomato cooked down until the pot darkens.
  3. The peanut mixture in only once the tomato has reduced, then a low simmer for forty minutes.
  4. Never a rolling boil after the peanut goes in — it splits and goes oily. Lime and chili at the end.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

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Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

chicken
Two different foods depending on the cut.
peanut butter
Fat, salt and body all at once, which is why it thickens a sauce as it flavors it.
tomato
Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
onion
The base under most of this library.
ginger
Bright and hot when raw, mellow and warm when cooked.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

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