PROM #5: Tuga-duga, gerti maffe, PEANUT BUTTER!
(small sack ~6oz. = 100um, 40 cents)
Okay, apologies first. I know I missed January. But my mom had the great idea of making Katie's post on the new mail box the missing PROM. So PROM #4 - RIM P.O. Box (6,000 um for the year/key). There...I know it's a cop-out, but tuff.
Second, thanks Carl! Our friend from Chinguetti gave us the following recipe for maffe a traditional RIM dish of peanut sauce over rice.
1 cup rice
meat (optional)
1 med. onion
1 small can tomato paste (~6 oz.)
3-4 cloves garlic
~6 oz. peanut butter
2 tblsp jashtini (ground-up okra, good luck with this one in the states)
salt, black and red pepper to taste
1 1/2 cup water
Saute the onion and minced garlic with the meat in large pan. Once onion tender/meat cooked thru, add tomato paste, water, jashtini and some spices. Simmer to a boil. Start rice in separate container (just cook rice the normal way, and when I say normal I mean normal for the RIM people, not you crazy microwave people, if you don't know how to cook rice...sorry). Mix peanut butter with a little water until it turns from a paste into more of a suace, add to pan, reduce heat, add more spices as desired. Put cooked rice on large plate, add sauce on top, bon appetit!
This is probably my favorite local dish, so those of you at home, try it and let me know what you think, or wait 1 1/2 years because I will definitely be cooking it a lot at home. It's a massive shot of protein! The only downside, not being able to ask for tugaduga at your grocery store. I love that word, it is Pulaar. That language is so rhythmic and cool!
Hope all is well.
Mike
04 February 2009
Pardon, avez-vous tugaduga?
P.S. - the spices are the salt, black and red pepper and anything else you may want to add, just to taste. I know there isn't a generic cannister just marked "spice." I learned that lesson long ago...Damn you streetside spice vendors!! I shake my fists in rage at you!
Posted by Mike at 11:52 AM
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Mike, Thanks for the PROM. I am always excited to read what you have written. Funny thing you have sent us a recipe with Peanut Butter in it as we have had a BIG Peanut butter re-call here in the U.S. but I think it mostly is foods that contain Peanut Butter. Any way, yes I will try it and i bet I can even come up with the paste or what ever it was made from okra. Uncle Al copied the recipe to take to share where he works at the Basil place. I am sure he will get lots of comments there. Love ya Mom
Glad you're enjoying the mahfe!!
Can we get a pic?
How about being a little more specific on the "spices "for this dish...You know there isn't something just called "spices" right?
I second Matt's request for specific "spices". Also, you're right about it being hard to find jashtini: I googled "jashtini", just to see if I could find it at some specialty food shops online and your website is the ONLY one that pops up when you google it. I know - when you come back to the states you become the world's only jashtini distributor. You're sitting on a gold mine!
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