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Genger & Ruam (Tiv Sesame Soup)

Name: Genger & Ruam (Tiv Sesame Soup)
Total time: 1h 15m
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Nigeria
Ingredients: 1 cup beniseed (sesame), toasted and ground; 400g beef; 150g dried fish; 2 tbsp locust bean; 1 tsp ground crayfish; 1 scotch bonnet; Bunch bitterleaf or spinach; Salt, seasoning

Tiv sesame-seed soup thickened with ground beniseed and eaten with ruam kunu — pounded yam or rice fufu.

1h 15m 4 servings Medium

Ingredients

• 1 cup beniseed (sesame), toasted and ground
• 400g beef
• 150g dried fish
• 2 tbsp locust bean
• 1 tsp ground crayfish
• 1 scotch bonnet
• Bunch bitterleaf or spinach
• Salt, seasoning

Method

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Boil beef with onion and seasoning until tender.

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1
Boil beef with onion and seasoning until tender.
2
Whisk ground beniseed with a little stock into a paste.
3
Stir paste into hot stock; add locust bean, crayfish, chili and dried fish.
4
Simmer 15 min until thick and nutty.
5
Fold in shredded leaves; cook 3 min.
6
Serve with pounded yam or ruam kunu.