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Guinea-Bissau
Caldo de mancarra is Guinea-Bissau's national chicken dish: chicken simmered with onion, salt and chilli until almost dry, then finished in a sauce of pounded peanuts (mancarra, in Guinean Creole) and tomato, sharpened at the end with lime. It belongs to the same family as Senegal's maafe, but the Bissau-Guinean version is lighter, tangier and served over plain white rice, with home-reared chicken that needs a long, slow cook.
The draft was written from 3 published sources and holds 8 ingredients and 5 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.