Meat Stew

Meat Stew

This is one very popular sauce in Ghana and some part of Africa and is usually eaten with rice, yam, plantain etc.. . Tomato is the main food item used in stews.

Ingredients

• 5 large onion
• 2 tins of tomatoes plums
• 1kg Beef/Goat meat/Chicken/Turkey
• 1tsp oregano
• cooking oil
• salt and seasons of choice
• 1 or 2 scotch bonnet pepper
• 5 cloves
• 15g ginger

Directions

• Wash the meat and season it with oregano, salt, maggi cube of your choice and 4 tbsp of blended ginger,garlic paste (see ginger garlic onion and pepper paste recipe)
• Cook it for about 40 minutes
• Cut 3 onions into big pieces and fry with 1/2 cup of oil till glaze golden brown remove and set apart
• Blend the tomato plums with one onion, pepper and ginger
• Add the already fried onions to the tomatoes and blend it together
• Cut the remaining onion and fry with 1 cup of cooking oil till glaze brown
• Add the blended tomatoes mixture to the onions on fire
• Stir and allow to cook for about 30 minutes
• Add the steamed meat with the stock to the stew and allow to cook on medium heat
• Allow the stew to cook for about 30 more minutes on a lower heat
• Taste and add seasons again if desired
• Serve with rice