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Abenkwan (Palm Nut Soup)

Name: Abenkwan (Palm Nut Soup)
Total time: 2h
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Ghana
Ingredients: 1 tin palm nut concentrate; 500g goat or beef; 2 smoked mackerel; 1 onion, tomatoes, scotch bonnet; Aniseed, calabash nutmeg; Garden eggs; Salt, stock cube

Ashanti soup of fresh palm-nut cream simmered with fish, meat and aromatics — deep orange and glossy.

2h 6 servings Medium

Ingredients

• 1 tin palm nut concentrate
• 500g goat or beef
• 2 smoked mackerel
• 1 onion, tomatoes, scotch bonnet
• Aniseed, calabash nutmeg
• Garden eggs
• Salt, stock cube

Method

Step 1 of 425%

Simmer meat with onion, salt and stock cube 40 min.

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1
Simmer meat with onion, salt and stock cube 40 min.
2
Whisk palm-nut concentrate with hot water; add to pot.
3
Stir in blended tomato-pepper, aromatics and garden eggs; simmer 45 min, skimming oil.
4
Add smoked fish; cook 10 min; serve with fufu or omotuo.