African Beef Stew

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African Beef Stew – a conventional mouth-watering stew and a normal West African Stew this is typically ready in most homes, in a couple of other ways. A must-have for Christmas gatherings and in daily meal.



Ingredients

  • 1-2 pound stew red meat , cut in small pieces
  • 1/2 -1 cup oil (Canola, Vegetable or Corn) , alter as needed
  • 1 medium yellow onion
  • 4 roma tomatoes , they're much less acidic
  • 4 peeled garlic cloves
  • ¼ cup chopped parsley
  • 3-4 tablespoon celery leaves
  • ½ -1 scotch bonnet pepper , optional
  • 1-2 basil leaves
  • 1 teaspoon contemporary thyme
  • 1 canned tomatoes sauce , 14 ounce
  • ½ teaspoon curry powder
  • 1 teaspoon white pepper
  • 1-2 teaspoons smoked paprika
  • 1 tablespoon Maggie powder or red meat bouillon powder
  • 1-2 inexperienced onion , sliced
  • salt to taste


Instructions

  • Boil red meat with salt, pepper and a few chopped onions in a medium pot till tender. It will take approximately 30 minutes or more, depending the cut of red meat and the way you're keen on your red meat cooked. I usually use the drive cooker to shorten the process. Reserve the inventory for later use.
  • Add 1 cup oil to the pot/pan and brown the meat for about 5-10 minutes. Remove and set aside.
  • In a blender, mix the onions, tomatoes, garlic, parsley, celery, thyme, basil  and scotch bonnet pepper 
  • Gently pour the mix of puree ingredients, and tomatoes puree  within the saucepan, upload curry powder, white pepper , smoked paprika and bouillon powder convey to a boil, cut back warmth and simmer for about 30 minutes.
  • Then return browned  red meat and simmer for one other 10 to 15 minutes.
  • Stir the pot commonly to steer clear of the sauce from sticking to the pot. -Occasionally including red meat inventory or water as had to steer clear of burns
  • Finally upload inexperienced onions. Adjust seasonings, sauce consistency with water/stock and salt.
  • Serve warm with wanted edge dish.


This is a conventional and normal West African Stew this is typically ready in most homes, in a couple of other methods in countries like Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana – by means of means of various the volume of tomatoes, onions and spices.

Quite much of oil is used to prepare dinner the stew – typically use to fry the tomatoes for a interval of time to cut back the volume of acidity show in tomatoes. You understand what? A nice West African stew is flavorful and is not usally acidic.

You may just take away a few of the extra oil on the cease earlier than serving.


Rice and stew was as soon as seen the quintessential West African Christmas meal. Of course, no Christmas desk can be entire with out it and an array of luxurious dishes. Oh, how instances have changed!

African Beef Stew

This tantalizing red meat stew has developed into an daily meal, cooked with other cuts of meat, and seafood and all of the time show on restaurant menus. But to most folks Christmas would by means of means of no means be entire with out stew.



Here is my take in this mouth-watering African red meat stew. Feel unfastened so as to feature vegetables similar to carrots, inexperienced beans or inexperienced pepper. In Nigeria, it most typically paired with African yam – fried or boil. Rice and fried plantain is one other nice edge dish choice for this African red meat stew.

Enjoy!



Tips and Notes:


  1. You too can permit the meat simmer for about 3 hours for a fall-off-the-bones delicate texture.
  2. You may just update canned tomatoes with contemporary tomatoes but make certain you fry the sauce till totally dry earlier than including liquid. You may just must upload extra oil and be careful for burns.
  3. You can depart out the roma tomaotes; it really works fine.
  4. If you don’t have red meat cubes on hand, you'll update it with bone-in red meat meat.
  5. As mentioned by means of means of seen one of the feedback below, if you’re reducing again on the fats (oil), you possibly can “cook off the water within the tomatoes by means of means of boiling the tomatoes till all of the water is gone. Once the water chefs off, upload a few oil (olive oil works well) to fry the tomatoes.”
  6. Substitute Maggi powder with chook bouillon.


Recipe Notes
 Feel unfastened so as to feature vegetables similar to carrots, inexperienced beans or inexperienced pepper
You may just take away a few of the extra oil on the cease earlier than serving.