A popular dish from Senegal, Yassa chicken, is a flavorful specialty that features marinated chicken cooked slowly over hot coals. It can also be made with lamb or fish. To prepare this spicy and smoky dish, the process begins by caramelizing thinly sliced onions in oil. While the onions cook, the protein of your choice is marinated in a mixture of lemon juice, thyme, garlic, salt, and pepper, infusing it with rich and zesty flavors.
It is a flavorful and aromatic braised chicken recipe that is marinated in a mixture of onions, lemon juice, mustard, and spices, then cooked in a rich onion-based sauce.
Yassa is actually a dish that isn’t cooked only with chicken. You can make a yassa dish with lamb or fish as well, poisson yassa – fish yassa being a rather well-known Senegalese dish as well.
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