For Dr. Jessica B. Harris, the allure of chicken yassa comes down to its simplicity. "It's my good-luck dish, in a way," the James Beard Award-winning food historian told TODAY Food. "Lemons are ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This variation on the classic yassa theme, which author Jessica B. Harris has experimented with over the years, uses carrots and pimento-stuffed olives to ...

The celebrity chef shares a popular Senegalese dish featured in his new cookbook The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food. "I hope yassa, typically served with chicken, gets its place in ...

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Yassa is a term for spicy marinated chicken from Senegal. If you want it even hotter, don't seed the chilies. In Senegal they would serve this with rice and a bean called niebe or cow peas, which have ...

Yassa chicken is originally from Casamance in Senegal. Traditionally it is a dish of sauteed chicken with onions and lemons. Credit: Aline Princet / Murdoch Books Rinse the chicken and pat dry, then ...