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Poule Dudon

Name: Poule Dudon
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Saint Lucia
Ingredients: 4 (bone-in) Chicken Thigh; 2 tbsp Brown sugar; 200ml Coconut milk; 1 Onion; 1 Tomato; 2 cloves Garlic; A pinch Thyme; 2 Green Onion; 1/2 Chili pepper; 1 Lime; 2 tbsp Vegetable oil; 1 tsp Salt; 200ml Water

Main Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Chicken stewed sweet with burnt sugar and coconut — a Saint Lucian Creole dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Poule dudon means 'sweet chicken' in Creole, a Saint Lucian dish of chicken colored with burnt dark sugar and stewed with coconut milk, tomato, onion, and herbs. Its hallmark is a dark, sweet, rich sauce, and it's eaten with rice, rice and peas, or boiled green bananas.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Saint Lucian kitchen, a pot of dark-colored chicken stew simmers as a sweet coconut aroma spreads.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Chicken Thigh 4 (bone-in)
Brown sugar 2 tbsp
Coconut milk 200ml
Onion 1
Tomato 1
Garlic 2 cloves
Thyme A pinch
Green Onion 2
Chili pepper 1/2
Lime 1
Vegetable oil 2 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 200ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Wash the chicken with lime juice, rub with grated garlic, thyme, and salt, and let stand 1 hour.
Put oil and the dark sugar in a pot and burn until it bubbles and turns deep brown.
Add the chicken and color all over.
Add the onion, tomato, green onion, chili, coconut milk, and water.
Cover and simmer on low for 40 minutes.

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