African Chicken Yassa Recipe with Mustard and Olives

Enjoy the flavours of West Africa with this one-pan dish with caramelised onions, tangy lemon, and a nice kick of chilli and mustard.

Chicken yassa with rice recipe is a staple dish in Senegal. The chicken is marinated in mustard and cooked in a mustard sauce.

Tender chicken and caramelized onions – this is a beautiful African chicken stew, the Senegalese poulet yassa or yassa chicken.

Chicken yassa is a popular Senegalese dish made from caramelized onions, dijon mustard, lemon juice and chicken.

You’ve got to make this African Chicken Yassa! It’s the famously popular, tender lemony chicken with caramelized onions from Senegal.