Pepper Chicken and Rice Vermicelli (Rice Sticks)

Rice Vermicelli and Pepper Chicken

Hi Guys! It’s another bank holiday weekend woohoo! Hope you made most of the sunshine yesterday. This weekend, I made Pepper Chicken and Rice Vermicelli (Rice Sticks) West African style. I was told my 11 month old nephew craved pepper chicken and Rice sticks *side eye* so I entered my Cookery Corner and worked magic. Vermicelli is very fine, long strands of pasta – like a skinny spaghetti – often used in soups. The name means ‘little worms’ in Italian (though in America, it is described more ethereally 'angel hair' pasta). It is available fresh or dried. Follow the simple steps below and bring a party to your taste buds. Aprons on!

Ingredients for Rice Vermicelli

Ingredients for Vermicelli and pepper chicken

1. Pack of Rice Vermicelli
2. Pack of cooked prawns
3. 1 tin of chopped tomato
4. 4 medium size onions
5. 3 bell peppers (green, red and yellow)
6. Mixed vegetable
7. 4 scotch peppers
8. Seasoning
9. Oil
10. Tomato puree  

Peanut butter mixture being smeared on chicken

Ingredients for Pepper Chicken

1. 2 rooster chicken
2. 4 scotch peppers
3. Peanut Butter
4. Tomato puree
5. Maggie Season
6. 3 lime

Cooking Instructions

Prawns added to vermicelli

Rice Vermicelli

1.      Slice onions and chop bell peppers and spring onions.

2.      Blend one onion with scotch peppers

3.      Pour oil into hot sauce pan and heat to cooking temperature.

4.      Once oil is heated, fry onions, bell peppers, spring onions and chopped tomato.

5.      Add bits of blended pepper and onions into the stew whilst the above is cooking.

6.      Add season and salt for flavour and 2 squeezes of tomato puree to give the stew colour.

7.      Open pack of rice vermicelli and break into 3 or 4 pieces and put in a large bowl.

8.      Add boiling water to the rice sticks and once it’s gone soft, strain the water.

9.      Add vermicelli and mixed vegetables to the pot with fried stew and turn the heat low.

10.  Leave to cook for a further 10 minutes

11.  Finally add cooked prawns and mix in together with stew and leave to simmer for a further 5 min.  

Pepper Chicken

1.      Wash and cut chicken into medium pieces.

2.      Season over night and put in fridge.

  3.      Once Chicken is well seasoned bring to boil until its mid tender.

   4.      Blend one onion with scotch peppers to your tolerance level.

  5.      Mix 4 scoops of peanut butter with 50ml of water in a large bowl so it is slightly watery then squeeze lime juice into the peanut butter mixture.

6.      Pour blended onions and pepper into the peanut butter mixture.

7.      Add the chicken into the bowl and smear the mixture all the chicken.

8.      Preheat the oven to 180C, Gas mark 4. Put Chicken in the oven and roast for 20 - 30 min.

9.      During cooking turn chicken pieces around so both sides are brown.

Voila! Dish is done!  

West African Style Vermicelli (Rice Sticks)