Mafé
Peanut butter stew with lamb and root vegetables.
Ingredients
- 800 g Lamb
- 1 cup Peanut butter
- 3 tbsp Tomato paste
- 2 Onions
- 3 Carrots
- 2 Sweet potato
- ¼ Cabbage
- 4 cloves Garlic
- 1 Scotch bonnet
- 4 tbsp Oil
- 2 tsp Salt
- 6 cups Water
Method
- Brown the lamb — Sear the lamb in oil until coloured all over.
- Add the base — Add the onion, garlic and tomato paste and cook 5 minutes.
- Loosen the peanut butter — Whisk the peanut butter with a cup of hot water until smooth before adding — added neat it will seize.
- Simmer — Add the peanut liquid and remaining water and cook gently for 1 hour, stirring so it does not catch.
- Add vegetables — Add the carrot, sweet potato and cabbage and cook 30 minutes until the oil rises to the surface.
- Mafé is ready — Season and serve with rice.