Day 19 (dish created on day 18)
Dish 14

Yesterday I made a yummy lime chicken dish called Yassa Ginaar, from Senegal, africa. Senegal is in west africa... when I was flying home from Zambia, I had a short layover in Dakar, Senegal. Due to ebola, though, the people leaving and getting on the flight were very monitored. Anyhow, back to the food... Personally I really like lime, so I could handle the sourness, but some people may want to tone it down a bit... :/


Ingredients:

*About 8 limes, juiced. And the zest of 3 limes.

*Chicken breasts

*Peanut oil

*1 cup water

*Ginger

*Garlic

*1 serano pepper

*Crushed red chili flakes

*Rice




*First off combine all of your ingredients minus the rice. It should make a nice, and very lime-y marinade. Let your chicken marinade for 1 hour on your counter, or 2 hours in your fridge. (Make sure it is covered.)

Here is the chicken in its marinade:

*Remove the chicken from the marinade. DO NOT throw your marinade away!

*Broil your chicken in the oven, or cook on a grill. While your chicken is cooking, start you rice.

Chicken... yumm... I have issues with cooking meat, though, so this looks pretty black around the edges. But because of the extra marinade that I dumped on it while it was cooking, it wasn't too too dry. (Yay!)

*Now for the marinade... I know this probably sounds really really weird, but you are going to cook your marinade. I looked this up to make sure that it really was fine to do, and many people said that, yes, you had raw meat in your marinade, but you cook the meat and then eat it... so why can't you cook the marinade and then eat it...? But i guess this is really up to you whether or not you want to eat your marinade. I did. I boiled it for about 10 minutes. (And I also added an extra cup or two of water.) After it had boiled for 10 minutes, I added about 1tbsp. of flour to thicken the marinade and let it simmer until it was a nice texture.

Here is the thickened marinade sauce stuff:

*By now, you rice should be done. Serve hot with your marinade drizzled over top of the rice and with the chicken on the side... :) yummmm...

And the finished product... :)

*Enjoy! :)

Thanks for reading!