BIBI'S RECIPE: WEST AFRICAN CASSAVA STEW

2020-10-15 · YouTube · Foodie Beauty · 4 min

A home-cooking demonstration showing preparation of a West African cassava-leaf stew cooked with meat (chicken and beef), smoked fish, ground peanut, aromatics, and red palm oil. The cook boils the meat, adds onions and garlic, mixes in defrosted cassava leaves and ground peanuts, soaks and adds smoked fish, heats and adds red palm oil (with a note not to stir immediately because the oil is very hot), and finishes the sauce. The cook mentions experimenting with tomato paste and okra powder to prevent the leaves from getting stuck between teeth and asks Chantal for feedback.

Video guide

  1. 0:09 — Start: adding meats and boiling
  2. 0:18 — Adding onions and aromatics
  3. 0:30 — Preparing spice mixture (nocos) and cassava
  4. 1:28 — Putting cassava into the pot and cooking until oil rises
  5. 1:59 — Adding smoked fish and ground peanut
  6. 1:47 — Heating and adding red palm oil; caution about mixing
  7. 3:30 — Finished cassava sauce and notes on experiments

People, places, food, and other named details

  • Person — Cook (speaker): Unidentified person speaking and demonstrating the recipe in the video.
  • Person — Chantal: Mentioned by the cook as someone who will give feedback on the experiment.
  • Food — cassava leaves: Defrosted cassava leaves added to the stew and cooked until oil comes up.
  • Food — chicken: Used as one of the meats boiled for the stew.
  • Food — beef: Used as one of the meats boiled for the stew.
  • Food — smoked fish: Smoked fish added for flavor; the cook says fish can be used alone or with meat.
  • Food — ground peanut: Ground peanut powder added and further ground in the pan for consistency.
  • Food — red palm oil: Heats and adds red oil near the end of cooking and warns not to mix immediately because it can be very hot.
  • Food — onion: Onions are cut and added while the meat cooks.
  • Food — garlic: Mentioned as an aromatic added after initial boiling of meat.
  • Food — tomato paste: Used experimentally with okra powder to change texture so leaves don't stick between teeth.
  • Food — okra powder: Added experimentally with tomato paste to prevent leaf texture issues.
  • Food — spice mixture (nocos / norcos / nokoss): A spice and parsley mixture referenced multiple times; added to the sauce.

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