Cameroon Ndole

Name: Cameroon Ndole
Total time: 3600 s
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: 3 cups washed bitter or non bitter leaves (ndole); 3 cups ground peanuts; 5 cloves garlic; 1 piece ginger; 2 medium sized onions; 1 Leek/ spring onion; White pepper; 1/2 cup ground crayfish (optional); 1 cup oil; 1/2 kg beef or chicken; Salt and cube to season; Hot pepper (optional); Fresh shrimps/prawns to garnish; Sweet potatoes or ripe plantain

Hilda Tansi @cook_7463116

This is a meal originating from the Littoral region of Cameroon and is among the favorite dishes from Cameroon loved even by foreigners. It can be eaten with ripe plantain, sweet potatoes, rice, cassava or miondo.

Hilda Tansi @cook_7463116

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Ingredients

1hr:15mns

3 cupswashed bitter or non bitter leaves (ndole)
3 cupsground peanuts
5 clovesgarlic
1 pieceginger
2medium sized onions
1Leek/ spring onion
White pepper
1/2 cupground crayfish (optional)
1 cupoil
1/2 kgbeef or chicken
Salt and cube to season
Hot pepper (optional)
Fresh shrimps/prawns to garnish
Sweet potatoes or ripe plantain

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Steps

1hr:15mns

1

Soak the peanuts in water for about 1 hour and blend afterwards. Alternatively you can parboil the peanuts for about 5 mins.
2

Blend the ginger, garlic, 1 onion, leeks, white pepper
3

Boil the meat with half onion, 3 cups of water, pinch of salt and a cube (maggi) for about 20 mins until tender
4

Warm 1/4 cup of oil in a pot. Put in 1/4 chopped onions and fry for about 30 secs.
5

Pour in the peanuts and add 3 cups of water. Cook for about 15 mins. stir from time to time.
6

Add to it the ginger, garlic, white pepper and leek mixture. stir properly
7

Add the ndole (vegetables) in small quantities while stiring. Add the meat with stock, crayfish, hot pepper, cube and salt. Allow to simmer for 10-15 mins till thick.
8

Warm the rest of the oil in a pan. Add to it the prawns and then the rest of the onion. Fry these for about 5 mins. Pour it into the pot of ndole while it is still simmering.
9

Peel your sweet potatoes or ripe plantain and boil for 20 mins. You can boil with the peelings and peel afterwards.
10

Serve your ndole hot with red wine. Bonne appetite.