
Cameroon / Main
Ndolé
Bitter leaves with peanut paste, meat and prawns. The national dish of Cameroon.
Ingredients
- Bitterleaf or spinach700 g
- Peanuts, raw, shelled300 g
- Beef, diced600 g
- Prawns300 g
- Dried shrimp50 g
- Onions2
- Garlic6 cloves
- Ginger40 g
- Chilli2
- Vegetable oil120 ml
- Plantain, to serve3
- Salt and pepperto taste
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 7 steps
Boil the leaves in salted water for ten minutes, wring them out and repeat twice more with fresh water.
Boil the peanuts twenty minutes until soft and blend them with water into a thick paste.
Brown the beef, then add the onion, garlic, ginger and chilli.
Add water and the dried shrimp and stew forty minutes, until the meat is tender.
Stir in the peanut paste and cook fifteen minutes, stirring; it catches easily.
Add the drained leaves and the fresh prawns and stew ten minutes more.
Serve with fried plantain or boiled cassava.

