Sauce d'arachide

A few local recipes for your enjoyment.....

Sauce d’Arachide (Peanut Sauce)
sorry Katie, this ones not for you...

3Tbs. Oil - Palm or Peanut
½ Piment Powder (or to taste)
1 Maggi Cube (Shrimp, Chicken or Beef)
½ Cup freshly ground Peanuts or Peanut Better
1 Tsp Salt (or to taste)
½ Cup Water
½ Cup Onion (optional)
Crush peanuts with a little water. Put paste in a pot add rest of the water, oil, and maggi cube. Stir. Add piment, salt and optional other spices. Let simmer for a bit. Serve hot with igname pile or rice.


Sauce Legume (think spinache)

1 ½ cups Legume (manioc leaf, gboman, fotatay, ect)
½ tsp baking soda
2 Cups water
½ onion
½ tsp salt
½ small can tomato paste
1 tsp piment
2 small bags sesame
1 maggi cube (any flavor)
2 tsp oil
Wash leaves well, 2-3 times before using thm and set aside. Saute tomato paste, piment, and baking soda in oil for about 5 min. Add water, onion, salt, and sesame. Simmer for 15 min. then add cube and legumes. Cook for abother 5 min. and taste for doneness.


Sauce Gumbo (a.k.a. Snot sauce) (Gumbo is know as Okra in the States)

½ Kilo fresh okra, washed, stems removed
5-6 tomatoes, peeled, and chopped
5-6 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup water
½ tsp salt
1 maggi cube
1-2 green piments pricked with a fork
Cut up okra into small pieces and place wioth tomatoes, garlic, piments, and water in a heavy saucepan and bring to a boil. Over a medium heat, let simmer, covered fro about 10-15 minutes until okra is tender. Add salt and maggi cube towards the end.