Moambe
By: marie claire sa...
Published: Sunday, January 1, 2012 - 8:44am

Ingredients




1 tin  moambe
2 chicken pieces per person
2 bay leaves
salt, pepper and PILI PILI
1 tin  saka saka (cassava leaves)
2 tablespoons peanut butter

Preparation

1 Remove the layer of fat that is on top of the fruit pulp 2 You can use that fat to brown the chicken pieces. 3 Add the contents of the tin and a little water. 4 Add salt, pepper, bay leaf and  the pili pili, each according to its sensitivity limit. 5 Cook slowly until chicken is done. 6 Attention, when the sauce is boiling, it splashed all over the stove. 7 For saka saka, heat the remaining fat and add the cassava leaves previously drained. 8 Add salt, pepper and 2 tablespoons of peanut butter. 9 This does not require cooking.

About

Moambe is the most well-known dish in central Africa.
As I guess that few of you know that dish, let me give you the recipe.
It is very easy, even a cook with two left hands can succeed with that recipe.
Called “moambe” or “sauce graine”, it is exactly the same recipe as the main ingredient for both is the pulp of the fruits from the Elaïs palm tree.
In Congo we should start cooking early in the morning as this sauce needs a long preparation...