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CHAPTER FOUR -- STEWED FOODS

Note Rules for Stewing in this Section

  1. Use a saucepan or stew-pan with a well fitting lid.
  2. Cut meat into neat pieces of moderate size.
  3. Allow about 3/4 pt. liquid to each lb. meat.
  4. For a Brown Stew, fry the meat on both sides before stewing; this helps to retain the juices in the meat and also gives it a nicer flavor.
  5. Cook slowly and steadily; do not allow the stew to boil.


FOROWE

Ingredient

  • 1 lb. fish
  • Onions, pepper
  • A little flour
  • 3 tomatoes or stale fish [salt fish?]
  • 1/2 pt. palm oil
  • Salt

 

Method

Prepare the fish, slice the onions and tomatoes and grind the pepper.

Fry the onions, tomatoes and pepper in deep hot plam oil. When these are cooked, mix the flour with water and add to it.

Let it simmer for a while, then add in the fish. Allow to simmer until cooked. -- Serve with boiled rice, yam or kenkey.



AGUSI FROWEE

Ingredient

  • 2 cig. tins agusi
  • 3 smoked fish
  • 8 onions
  • 4 tomatoes
  • 1 1/2 [one and one-half] teasp. ground pepper
  • 1 teasp. salt
  • A small pices of salt fish (optional)
  • 1/2 pint palm oil or any vegetable oil
  • About 1/2 pint water

Method

  1. Grind agusi seeds to a smooth paste.
  2. Prepare and break fish into small pieces.
  3. Prepare and slice tomatoes and onions. Fry in oil.
  4. Add fish, pepper and agusi paste, water and salt to the oil and simmer for one hour.
  5. Serve hot with banku, kenkey, rice or ampesi.

 



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Copyright: Ghanaian Favourite Dishes by Alice Dede (Accra, Ghana: Anowuo Educational Publications, 2R McCarthy Hill, 1969)
 
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