Had a guest tonight who teaches English here. He's from Cameroon and hasn't been there in over a year. So I decided to do something new. I got brave and looked up Cameroon's national dish online! I found a few recipes and some instructions, went to the market for ingredients ( had to substitute a few) and gave it a try. I thought it was very yummy, but I don't dare call it Ndole, that would be presumptious, so I'm calling it African peanut fish stew. And I was very pleased to find out it only worked out to 2.5 points per serve! (plus rice).
Boil the stalks and leaves of two turnips (the original is bitterleaf, but I don't know where to find that outside of Africa)
Fry an onion and garlic, and add 4 chopped tomatoes, add this into the soup mixture.
Grind up 80-100 g of salted roasted peanuts till they are kinda half chopped and pour in
half a hot pepper
salt and pepper to taste
Let this simmer for a while to build the flavours
Add 2 fish fillets chopped in bite sized pieces, and stop stirring so as to not break them up as they cook.
Serve over rice and garnish with dried banana slices and parsley.
The taste was so different! I always think of peanuts as a sweet item, but they were awesome in this stew. I let it boil down more than I should and so didn't have as much stock as would have been nice. Overall I loved it! I don't think our African guest was as impressed as I accidently led him up to think by telling him I had tried to make his country's national dish! but he seemed to enjoy it.
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