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for ever and gnocchi fufu

Gastronomy Ghana, or at least the products used or derived therefrom, provides great opportunities for experimentation and transformation.

The encounter .. merger born out new dishes, I mentioned very recently through the site Patti.

Today the menu, a dish of Ghana: fufu.

Star National Food of the country, it varies by region. Over 6 years I have lived in Ghana, I met one Ghanaian who did not eat fufu is tell you the popularity of this dish.

Fufu is elastic and compact at a time. In some areas, it is appreciated very elastic, then it will increase the proportion of plantain. For the compact high, + + + cassava. Not too soft for the plantain, it is recommended to use the yam.

's all about balance.

In neighboring countries, it is called foutou, fu, fufu.

The three basic ingredients for our fufu are plantain, cassava (or cassava) and energy to transform the 2 previous paste.

dish slow sugar excellent for athletes and sports ranges. It is also quite common to meet men "Pileur" fufu bar in the shop (literally, bars where you swallow) that serve this dish, often unique for a very reasonable price.

First, we must peel the cassava (manioc) who have skin that looks like
rather to a bark as it is hard.
For plantains, the operation is easier.

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Then take her pestle, and his muscles dexterity because ... watch your fingers!

And pound, pound, pound, ancestral gesture and sound, so familiar from the drumstick, rising prices. Not an event without this dish. It must be said that the ingredients are cheap and grow in every corner of the land and it is invigorating! It takes the body! Like many Ghanaians are engaged in activities that require lots of energy, this dish of slow sugar is particularly suitable.

For financial reasons or by choice, some do with yams, as I pointed out one of my neighbors with a disdainful pouting lips hanging "Is't The Right One", this is not true. To which he added "Is To soft, it is too soft.

To accompany it, a bunch of sauce and soup are available.
With taro leaves (called here Nkutumré, kontomniré or cocoyam and leave again, poetically silver beet), it will be dressed with sauce Palava.

peanut sauce accompanies the soup with groundnuts (MAFF called Francophone countries) with chicken or fish, eggs sometimes.

The palm fruit ornamentation of a pretty red color and then called palm soup (very very long to prepare).

In view of rapid urbanization and its corollary, the rural exodus (about 50% of Ghana's population lives in cities), the food industry has adapted this dish if done in an apartment complex to imagine the coil downstairs neighbors if by chance you put yourself in pounding fufu in your apartment! Fufu dried powder is then offered for sale.

Based Ghanaian friends is a pretty good substitute. Soup seed (or seed sauce in Francophone countries) palm is also prepared in any tin can.

Fast food fufu and traditions ..

So to continue the transformation,

today culinary experimentation,

asked Professor Calculus in the kitchen ...

gnocchi Fufu ... Made in Busua Inn

For the base, make a fufu as described above and then divide it into long roll. Although wet your fingers because it sticks. Cut into small chunks, just like the gnocchi, it must have something in common.

This will be the form cons as cassava and potato flour vs. plantain as much use local products, Ghanaians to work, run the local economy, avoiding too much of this (unfortunately) famous carbon and trace discover the Ghanaian cuisine.

A little flour, fry in a skillet with butter (some of my roots are Norman) and serve with ... what you want.

nkutumré or taro leaves (also called cocoyam leave) cut

For my part, I made a tomato sauce Fresh leaves and tarot cards that I flavored with oregano and thyme (I give the recipe on request).
In this sauce, I cooked chicken, it could be fish.


A sauce between the two shores, between Provence, western France and Ghana.

fusion cuisine I told you?