Pondu
The Congo's green gold: cassava leaves pounded and simmered for hours with groundnuts, palm oil and smoked fish or meat — pondu is the great river's defining stew. Ingredients: cassava leaves, groundnuts or palm pulp, palm oil, smoked fish, beef (optional), onions, chiles, salt.
What it is
The Congo's green gold: cassava leaves pounded and simmered for hours with groundnuts, palm oil and smoked fish or meat — pondu is the great river's defining stew. Ingredients: cassava leaves, groundnuts or palm pulp, palm oil, smoked fish, beef (optional), onions, chiles, salt. Recipe: 1) Pound the leaves until they surrender their fibres. 2) Boil long to tame them. 3) Add nut paste and oil; simmer into a dark, creamy stew. 4) Add fish or meat near the end. Serve: with fufu or rice, from Kinshasa to Kisangani. Flavor: deep green, nutty, smoky. History: pondu (saka-saka across the river in Congo-Brazzaville) anchors Central Africa's leaf-stew family; every family pounds its own. See also: Liboke, Mbinzo.
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