Kanda ti Nyma

Meatballs in a rich groundnut and tomato sauce.

Ingredients

• 700 g Ground beef
• 1 cup Peanut butter
• 4 Tomatoes
• 2 Onions
• 5 cloves Garlic
• 2 Chili
• 1 Eggs
• ½ cup Breadcrumbs
• ¼ cup Palm oil
• 2 tsp Salt
• 4 cups Water

Method

1. Make the meatballs — Mix the beef with egg, breadcrumbs, half the onion, garlic and salt and roll into balls.
2. Brown — Sear the meatballs in palm oil until coloured all over, then lift out.
3. Build the sauce — Cook the remaining onion, tomato and chili until pulpy.
4. Loosen the peanut butter — Whisk it with hot water until pourable before adding — added neat it seizes.
5. Simmer — Add the peanut liquid and cook 25 minutes until the oil rises.
6. Return the meatballs — Cook gently a further 20 minutes.
7. Kanda ti Nyma is ready — Serve with rice or cassava.

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