How to make Chicken Mafe | Mafé | Easy Mafé Recipe | West Africa’s Dish | Mafé (Peanut Butter Stew)

peanut butter

🥗Healthier: almond butter

💰Cheaper: sunflower seed butter

Almond butter offers a nutty flavor with less fat.

chicken

🥗Healthier: tofu

💰Cheaper: chickpeas

Tofu is lower in calories and chickpeas are budget-friendly.

vegetable oil

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: canola oil

Olive oil has heart-healthy fats.

chicken broth

🥗Healthier: vegetable broth

💰Cheaper: water with seasoning

Vegetable broth reduces sodium and calories.

Make a mixture of the items except chicken and smash them in the grinder to form their paste.

Add the paste over the chicken and leave for a few minutes.

Heat up the frypan and add the mixed chicken paste into the frypan and fry.

Take a separate frypan, add onions into the oil and fry until brown.

Add the grinded paste into the frypan and mix gently.

Add tomatoes and salt and mix gently.

Peel cassava and sweet potatoes.

Add the tomatoes paste into the mixture in the frypan and add some water as suitable.

Cook for some time, then add cassava and sweet potatoes along with bay leaf into the mixture in the frypan and cook.

Later add peanut butter paste into the mixture.

Cook for some time with chicken added in the mixture.

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