Suya Chicken. Suya (Chicken) — These baked African style chicken satay are smothered in a spicy, flavorful peanut butter sauce. Perfect for snacks, summer picnic or as main dish. Rest assured they are not calorie laden - you can make them healthier by reducing the amount of oil and replace the chicken thighs with chicken breast.
We use beef fillets for the classic Nigerian Suya while we use fillets of chicken breast for this one.
Chicken Suya made with chicken wings!
This popular Nigerian street food recipe is perfect for the summer, entertaining or to just enjoy on a weeknight.
You can cook Suya Chicken using 7 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Suya Chicken
- You need of Whole chicken.
- It's of Ginger.
- Prepare of Kulikuli.
- Prepare of Garlic.
- You need of Oil.
- It's of Onions.
- You need of Seasoning.
The chicken is marinated in Suya spice also known as yaji or Suya pepper and then grilled to perfection with the wings falling off the bones. Dip chicken in vegetable oil before coating in the paprika and yaji sauce. Then place on the grilling pan. Bring out the chicken suya from the oven and serve warm garnished with some tomatoes or onions.
Suya Chicken instructions
- In a pot, Add whole chicken, pour water until it almost covers the chicken, add seasonings, fresh ginger and garlic, basil leaves & onions. Cook until almost soft..
- Strain from the stock and save the stock for other uses. Mix the kulikuli with spices and red chilli pepper add oil until it almost makes a paste not runny though..
- Rub it all over the chicken, add sliced onions and bake in the oven for a minimum of 10-15minutes on low flame. Voila! Wild Flavours Chef B.
Lerato's recipe for chicken suya sees thigh fillets poached and then grilled until charred, served on a bed of fragrant coconut rice. Chicken Suya is an extremely popular Nigerian Chicken recipe. Nigerian Chicken Suya is simply Yaji Spice infused grilled Chicken. Chicken Suya can be made with either boneless or boned Chicken. When making it with boneless chicken, it's more ideal to use Chicken thigh rather than breast as the thigh is softer and more flavourful.