Lamb Yassa. This lamb burger is made with caramelized onions, our grass-fed lamb, and garnished with a special yassa sauce that has a sweet and acidic taste, so there is no need for pickles, although a spicy mustard is a great addition. Thiam, who was born and raised in Dakar, is the chef and owner of Teranga, a West African restaurant in Harlem. His recipe calls for bone-in chicken legs, but, in southern Senegal, where the dish originated, you might be served other chicken parts, fish yassa or even lamb yassa.
For my part, I chose the most common preparation, chicken yassa.
The sauce mainly consists of onions.
Senegalese Chicken Yassa is a famously popular recipe throughout west Africa.
You can cook Lamb Yassa using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Lamb Yassa
- It's of Lamb.
- Prepare of Mustard.
- You need of Onions.
- Prepare of Pepper.
- You need of Garlic.
- Prepare of Ginger.
- You need of Spices.
- You need of Salad tomatoes.
- Prepare of Vinegar nd lemon.
- It's of Carrot nd potatoes.
- Prepare of Black pepper.
It's one of those simply delicious dishes: just a few ingredients that are transformed, by the magic of cooking, into an exciting and comforting meal. Yassa is a spicy dish prepared with onions and either marinated poultry or marinated fish. Originally from Senegal, yassa has become popular throughout West Africa. Chicken yassa (known as yassa au poulet), prepared with onions, lemon or mustard, is a specialty from the Casamance region in the south of Senegal.
Lamb Yassa instructions
- Marinate ur meat wit half of the ingredients listed above except onion salad and d potatoes cook until all d water in meat are dry.
- Cut ur onions in semi circles carrots and potatoes put d remaining mustard and spices wit lemon and vinegar.
- Fry the meat wit little oil if ready remove from d pan nd put the onions mixture and cook add some water to make the onions tender and cook put the fry meat carrots and potatoes close the pan nd cook until everything is cooked and oil is out. Enjoyed wit rice or vermicelli or salad jst lyk u see on the pix..
Other meats used for yassa are lamb and fish. The hot plantains with crispy outsides had a super smooth flavor.lamb yassa had creative mix of pineapple burst, spicy onion mixture, citrusy side of something with meat. Homemade juices, and curious fried cornbread-like bite sized fried things. Door dash service, basic restaurant dining area. The first African dish I tasted and truly enjoyed was Senegal's Chicken Yassa.
