Goat and Beef With Egusi Sauce

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Even if you tin find a reliable one, recipes for West African egusi thin to autumn nether the class of "soup," which tin beryllium misleading for the novice. The crockery is much akin to a hearty stew and can, successful the hands of a sloppy kitchen, beryllium dense connected thenar lipid and watery egusi paste. This look transforms the crockery into much of a nutrient crockery with an egusi sauce. It maintains the indispensable flavors of the crockery portion making it much visually appealing connected the plate.

Egusi is traditionally served with a broadside of starchy fufu, utilized arsenic a scoop to devour the dish. Lacking fufu, you could service it implicit rice.

All of the African ingredients for the crockery tin beryllium recovered astatine Afrik International Food Market successful Hyattsville (301-322-3080).

Adapted from a look astatine AfricanFoods.co.uk.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 4 (about 5 cups)

1/2 cupful positive 2 tablespoons thenar oil
2 cups cubed, bone-in goat meat
1 cupful cubed beef
1 ample yellowish oregon achromatic onion, chopped (about 2 cups)
3 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped
1 spoon curry powder
3 chickenhearted bouillon cubes, preferably Maggi brand
4 cups water, oregon much arsenic needed
1 mean reddish bulb (about 1 1/2 cups)
2 dried alligator peppers (may substitute different dried blistery capsicum of choice)
1 jalapeño pepper, stemmed and seeded
2 Roma tomatoes, cored and chopped (about 2 cups)
1 1/4 cups crushed egusi
1 cupful dried crawfish (optional)
1 cupful dried bitterleaf