How To Make Tomato Stew

 

          Tomato Stew is a Nigerian red stew recipe prepared in many styles and types of attachment such as meat, chicken, Goat meat, Ram meat, fish, egg e.t.c

          Tomato Stew is pretty much a staple in almost every Nigerian household, and also eaten all over West Africa with some ingredient variation based on culture and individual preference.

         INGREDIENTS.

 * Tomato

 *Oil

 *Onions

 *Garlic

 *Ginger

 *Tumeric Powder

 *Chicken

 *4 Scotch Bonnet Pepper

 *2 Teaspoon of Dried Thyme

 *1 Teaspoon of Curry Powder

 *Season & Salt to Taste.

       TOMATO

     Plum tomatoes are the best for the Nigerian Tomato Stew. This is because all other types of tomatoes either have a very strong taste or contains a lots of water and seed. It gives the best texture of the kind of stew you want to cook.

 

       VEGETABLE OIL

 

         Nigerian Tomato Stew can be made with different kind of oil, pertaining to choice. Flavorless oil can be used such as vegetable oil, corn oil, avocado oil, and canola oil.

     CHICKEN

      Chicken is a preferred choice to prepare Nigerian Tomato Stew. It gives the stew a lovely and digestive aroma, and also a pleasant look when being mixed up. They vary in different kind of measurements (pieces,kilo cartoon, e.t.c)

      PROCEDURE

  *Blend The Tomatoes

Simply blend the Tomatoes,a large onions,bell peppers,Scotch Bonnet, garlic and ginger. Blend still smooth,and set aside.

  *Cooking The Chicken

Rinse the pieces of the chicken very well. Place inside a washed and clean pot. Apply seasoning cube, Curry powder, Dried thyme, salt to taste. Mix thoroughly.

Place on the cooker to cook for 20 minutes. After being done, set aside.

  *Prepare The Tomatoes Mixture

Gently pour the tomato mixture from the blender to another pot. Add the chicken water, then cook until it becomes dry. Prepare still it form a tomato paste ready enough to fry.

  *Slice Onions And Add To The Tomato Paste

After being done, scoop the paste out of the pot and set aside. Into the same pot, add your vegetable oil to heat, fry onions for 1mins. One at a time, begin to add your cooked Tomato Paste.

  *Apply Meat Stock and Spices

After adding your Tomato Paste to the vegetable oil, cook for 5minutes, then apply your cooked chicken and season (salt, Maggi, Curry, tumeric Powder, and thyme) to taste.

Mix well, add a little water.Cover to cook well for another 5minutes.

After 5minutes, your delicious stew is ready. Tomatoe stew is usually paired with beans, yam, plantain, rice, Eba, e.t.c