Domoda

Groundnut stew with meat and pumpkin — the national dish.

Ingredients

• 800 g Beef
• 1 cup Peanut butter
• 3 tbsp Tomato paste
• 400 g Pumpkin
• 2 Onions
• 2 Sweet potato
• 3 tbsp Lemon juice
• 1 Scotch bonnet
• 4 tbsp Oil
• 2 tsp Salt
• 6 cups Water

Method

1. Brown the beef — Sear the meat in oil until well coloured.
2. Add the base — Add onion and tomato paste and cook 5 minutes.
3. Loosen the peanut butter — Whisk with hot water until pourable before it goes into the pot.
4. Simmer — Add the peanut liquid and cook gently 45 minutes, stirring so it does not catch.
5. Add vegetables — Add the pumpkin and sweet potato and cook 30 minutes until the oil separates.
6. Balance — Add lemon juice — the sourness cuts the richness and is what makes domoda domoda.
7. Domoda is ready — Serve over rice.

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