
Poulet DG
Abuja, Nigeria ·
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Poulet DG is Cameroonian, fried chicken and ripe plantain in a tomato and vegetable sauce, cooked as one pot and served hot. The name is the good part. Poulet is French for chicken; DG stands for Directeur Général, Managing Director. The dish is named for the kind of person who could afford it. It emerged as a dish for those with money, at a time when chicken and plantain together in that quantity was not an everyday proposition, and the name stuck as a piece of affectionate mockery. It is now widely cooked at every level. The construction is what makes it work. Chicken is fried and set aside; plantain is fried separately until caramelised at the edges; a sauce of tomato, onion, pepper, carrot and green beans is built in the same pan; then everything is combined briefly at the end. That last part matters. The plantain is added late so it keeps its shape and its sweetness against the savoury sauce rather than dissolving into it. It is best eaten immediately, the source is emphatic that it is markedly better hot.



