Burkina Faso's Mafé
Mafé is a stew that combines lamb, beef, or chicken with peanut butter. Also called Tigadegena locally, it’s a dish with many variations, but some of the common ingredients are cabbage, chicken, onion, tomato, garlic, and root vegetables.
Equipment
Cooking Pot
Ingredients
- ½ cup of oil
- 1 tsp of salt
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 Maggi cubes
- 5 pcs fresh tomatoes
- 5 small dried fish
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- ½ tsp black pepper
- 2 shallots chopped
- 1 eggplant chopped
- 1 cup of clean water
- 2 big onions chopped
- 1 pound of fresh spinach
- ½ tsp coriander powder
- 2 large carrots chopped
- 1 cup of vegetable stock
- 2 cloves of garlic minced
- ½ cup organic peanut butter
- 1 kilo of beef cut into cubes
- 8 hot habanero peppers whole
- 1 tsp fresh peeled ginger minced
Instructions
- In a big pot, season your meat with salt, freshly cracked black pepper, paprika, chopped ginger, and garlic. If you have time to spare, marinate it for two hours.
- Heat oil and sear the meat pieces for 10 minutes until lightly browned on all sides. This gives them a nice color and adds flavor to the stew. Take the meat out.
- Add the onion, garlic, and ginger and sauté for 2 minutes.
- Add chopped tomatoes, cumin, black pepper, coriander powder, and bay leaves, and stir to mix.
- Pour in the stock and add the meat back to the pot.
- Add the dried fish.
- Add the vegetables and Maggi cubes and leave the mixture to boil for an hour.
- Stir in the peanut butter and reduce the heat.
- Allow the meat to boil until it’s cooked through and the sauce thickens. You can adjust how thick or thin you want your mafé by adding more broth to make it thin and more peanut butter to make it thick.
- In the last 15 minutes, add the hot peppers and spinach.
- Season with salt and serve hot with rice.
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Nutrition
Serving: 4gCalories: 451kcalCarbohydrates: 27.2gProtein: 32.7gFat: 22gSaturated Fat: 5.3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.9gMonounsaturated Fat: 6.9gCholesterol: 85.3mgSodium: 906.7mgPotassium: 616.9mgFiber: 4.2gSugar: 5.2gVitamin A: 14.3IUVitamin C: 15.8mgCalcium: 4.3mgIron: 23mg