FRIED PLANTAIN AND CHICKEN

Ingredients

3 ripe plantains

6 cut pieces of soft chicken

1 cup soft flour

1 egg

Salt to taste

½ teaspoon curry powder

½ teaspoon turmeric powder

50 ml ginger juice

Chicken seasoning 

Sunflower oil for frying

1 tablespoon paprika powder 

½ seasoning cube

¼ cup baking powder

1 onion (ground)

1 ginger (ground)

4 garlic cloves (ground)

Instructions

 Fried Plantain

1. Cut plantains into desirable shapes and sizes. Rinse with water and set aside.

2. In a bowl, mix ginger juice, curry powder, salt and paprika powder together.

3. Pour mixture over cut plantains or put cut plantains in the mixture. 

4. Leave the cut plantains to soak the mixture for 20 – 30 minutes, depending on the size of the cuts.

5. Heat oil in a pan and once heated, fry the cut plantains. If you want a coat, then pour the mixture over the cut plantains in the hot oil.

6. Fry to desired brownness, remove from oil and place them on a tissue paper so that excess oil is soaked by the tissue. 

Fried Chicken  

1. Clean chicken pieces and set aside.

2. Mix onions, ginger, garlic, salt, turmeric powder and seasoning cube in a bowl then pour over chicken pieces. Allow to sit for 10-15 minutes.  

3. Place the saucepan of chicken on fire to cook. Once tender and tasty, take off he fire. 

4. For the batter, mix egg, soft flour, baking powder, chicken seasoning and salt in a bowl. 

5. Dip chicken pieces in batter ensuring it is fully coated. 

6. Heat oil in a pan and once heated, fry chicken pieces to desired brownness.

7. Place fried chicken on a tissue paper to allow the excess oil to be soaked by the tissue paper. 

NB: The colour of the fried plantain is due to the fact that it was very ripe and the presence of the mixture as coating. 

The ginger juice is just blended ginger sieved with little water. 

The excess batter can be kept to be used again or fried and eaten. 

The thickness of the batter will depict how thick the coating of the chicken will be when fried

Do not allow the chicken cook to extreme tenderness so it doesn’t fall apart or overcook when fried. 

This recipe makes it much nicer to eat the chicken and plantain on its own without some type of sauce. 

Serving Suggestion

4 pieces of fried plantain, 2 pieces of fried chicken, 3 slices of avocado pear and a spoonful of Heinz tomato ketchup (optional).