Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, ofada stew & breaded oven baked chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

This ofada stew/ofada sauce recipe features a stew that originates from the Western part of Nigeria and is commonly eaten with a locally grown rice called ofada rice. Ofada stew is also known as ayamase stew or designer stew; it can be prepared with green bell pepper, with red bell pepper or even with the combinations of both. Ofada Rice and stew is a Nigerian meal native to the Yorubas but in recent times, everyone, especially those in Lagos and environs, has been bitten by the Ofada Rice bug.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook ofada stew & breaded oven baked chicken using 22 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Ofada stew & breaded oven baked chicken:

1. Make ready 2-4 chicken pieces (duhhh)
2. Get rice
3. Prepare 3 eggs
4. Get your choice of vegetables (I use mange-tout, baby corn, spring onions and baby brocolli)
5. Get 3 Anaheim peppers
6. Get 2-3 red bell peppers
7. Take Panko bread crumbs
8. Prepare 1 tbsp coriander
9. Make ready 3/4 tbsp cumin
10. Make ready 3/4 thyme
11. Get 1 tsp cinnamon, chilli flakes, parsley and paprika
12. Take 1/2 tbsp chopped garlic
13. Make ready 1/2 tbsp chopped ginger
14. Get 1/2 tbsp salt
15. Get rosemary (optional, but helps with taste, hmmn hmnn mnn)
16. Prepare for the ofada stew:
17. Take 2-3 maggi/knorr bouillon cubes
18. Make ready 1/2 – 1 tbsp crayfish
19. Prepare 3/4 tbsp Iru
20. Make ready 1/2 tbsp thyme
21. Take 1 – 2 tsp salt
22. Prepare 150 – 200ml palm oil

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Steps to make Ofada stew & breaded oven baked chicken:

1. Ok, First step is to season your chicken and leave to marinade anywhere from 3 hours to overnight. Then when that is all done, bring out your chicken and dip into egg, then into bread crumbs, then sprinkle coriander on it and toss into oven. (180 d.F for about 45 minutes. I prefer my meat not too moist, so I add little oil and tend to use a cloth to dab out the extra moisture in-between cooking).
2. Boil your rice! done! moving on!
3. Steam or sauté your vegetables! done! moving on! we’re making time here aren’t we? I LAV IT!
4. Now, time for the stew we have all been waiting for. For your Ofada stew, cut up your Anaheim peppers and bell peppers and blend slightly rough in a blender, with some added water to help the peppers blend properly.
5. Once blended, get your pot/pan and put into it your blended mix, and leave on medium heat for a while, until the fluid has dried up and all you are left with is a dry pepper mix. This allows the pepper to really soak up the palm oil and seasonings and also, your stew does not have taste stolen from it by excess fluid. Refer to the image attached
6. Now, in the same pan/pot or a new one if you’d like, add your palm oil and leave on medium heat for 5-6 minutes, it will start to smoke, don’t worry, this is just the bleaching process. Now add Iru and chopped onions and fry for about 5 minutes, (at this point, if you were doing it with assorted meat, this is where you would add them to fry, they will absorb the oil, but eventually release it back). After frying your Iru and onions for 5 minutes, add your crayfish, salt and other seasonings.
7. Leave to fry-cook for another 2 minutes, then add your dry pepper mix. The mix will cook just like if you were using meat, it will absorb the oil, cook, and then release it back to the top, once you start to see your oil rise to the top, it means your stew is ready. At this point, you can either take it off, dish it and eat it because you cannot wait any longer as the suspense is killing you and the family, or you could just cook it for 5 more minutes to darken more.
8. That is it, ladies and gentlemen, and your finished stew should look something like this
9. Now go ahead and combine all and enjoy your meal. leave any comments below of what you think! your own recipes! how will you tweak this? do you have a way to make it better? or do you just want to tell me I am awesome!

Funny enough, the Ofada sauce got it name from the local rice it is usually served with (Ofada rice), the sauce itself is called Ayamase. Ayamase stew also called Designer stew or Ofada sauce is a green bell peppers stew, which happens to be a delicacy common in the western part of Nigeria. This stew is actually different from ofada. Ofada stew is highly flavoured with 'Ede' (crayfish) and 'Iru' (fermented locust beans). To prepare Ofada rice, boil water in a pot, rinse ofada rice thoroughly and add to pot of boiling water.

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