Tuesday 24 September 2013

Spicy Yam Soup Recipe




This is a traditional West African recipe for a classic vegetarian stew of yams, onions, courgettes, chickpeas and rice in a chilli and tomato stock. It's another of those typically West African dishes that though called a 'soup' is more what we would call a 'stew' especially as peanut butter is added as a thickener.

Wednesday 18 September 2013

Plantain and Coconut Beef Soup Recipe



This is a traditional Gambian recipe for a classic rich stew of plantains and beef with onions, tomatoes and peas in a coconut milk base. 

Note that in West African parlance this is a soup not a stew. Stews are served with rice and soups are stews that are served with fufu, pounded yam or pap (maize porridge). 

Tuesday 10 September 2013

Shrimp Sauce Recipe




This is a traditional West African sauce made from dried prawns along with peanuts, tomatoes and onions. Often dried prawns or shrimps are ground to a powder and used as a thickener but here they are a main feature of this stew.