How to cook Minty Tomato Chicken Stew

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How to cook Minty Tomato Chicken Stew
A plate of rice with chicken tomato mint stew.

How to cook chicken tomato stew with scent leaves

Tomato mint stew is cooked the same way you cook your normal tomato stew except that
here you add some mint leaves for that unique stew taste.
This stew can be served with rice, pasta, boiled yam or plantain. It can be as thick or light as you want it. What makes the difference is the quantity of water used.
  • Boil

chicken with salt and onion

  • In a different pot boil tomatoes until soft, about 20 minutes.
  • Now add pepper, onion  and tatashe to boiled tomato before blending all together.  
  • Fry blended tomatoes for about 5 to 10  minutes.
  • Add your already  boiled chicken to frying tomato
  • Add chicken stock and mint leaves to stew known as scent leaves in Nigeria.
  • Let it simmer a bit. Check for salt and adjust if needed.
  • Take off from heat and serve.
Soft rice with minty stew

This stew /soup can be prepared with any vegetable of your choice, however, the best taste comes with mint leaves sprinkled sparingly.
Enjoy!

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26 thoughts on “How to cook Minty Tomato Chicken Stew”

  1. Nice one there. 2 questions where can I get the mint leaves and also why did you add the fried tomato to the chicken stock.

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  2. Beautiful meal sis Eya. Can one cook this with fried fish? I love mint but too much of it can over power d taste of d food. U like plenty pepper, I counted like 7 hot peppers u cooked b4 blending.

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  3. Yay!
    I absolutely love adding mint leaves (nchanwu) to tomato stew. It gives it a very delicious flavour. Its also good way to transform old tomato stew you've had for a whyle. Kai, my mouth is watering seriosly here o.

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  4. You can get mint leaves at the open market. It's usually sold by the women who sell condiments for igbo soups. Just ask them for scent leaf. You can also get it at supermarkets like spar and shoprite, it's labelled mint leaves there.

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  5. Thank you Sister Lizzy. Yes you can cook with fried fish. I don't like too much mint leaves too that's why I added sparingly. It gives a very delicious taste when added sparingly.

    My sis, that pepper eh, when the kids saw it, they demanded I take some out or give them indomie noodles to eat. I had to take three out before blending.

    No, I only boiled the tomatoes o, the pepper and tatashe were added there when I was about to blend. I don't boil pepper and tatashe before blending.

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  6. Kai,anty eya,u dey try well well,ds belle wey I get no dey let me eat anythn,not even water,na so so spit n vomi for 3 months now,I for lik try out ds stew but#sobbing,wetin I go do,I go pass till am able to start eating again,walahi I luv d fact dat d chicken is not fried n d mint leaf too,nice one anty,kip d gd work.

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  7. please people of WC i dont want to come across as over sabi bt i have noticed that you people refer to scent leaves as "mint". Its actually called BASil LEAVES in english. It not the same as mint. Mint taste and smell sort of like toothpaste. Madam Eya please take note its scent leaves in pidgin, efirin in yoruba, nchanwu in igbo and Basil leaves in english. Thank you

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