Gboma Dessi
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5
2 reviews
Excellent
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Prep Time
20 mins
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Cook Time
2 hrs 30 mins
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Total Time
2 hrs 50 mins
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Servings
4 people
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Course
Main Course
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Cuisine
African
Gboma Dessi
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Gboma dessi is a sauce called "sauce feuille" in Togo that is typically served with meat, shrimp, crab or smoked fish.
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Ingredients
For the gboma dessi
- 1 lb spinach
- 2 lb beef , cut into large cubes
- 3 onion thinly sliced
- 3 cloves garlic , minced
- 1 tablespoon ginger , minced
- 2 cubes chicken bouillon
- 5 tablespoons palm oil (or vegetable oil)
- 2 hot peppers
- 1 (14 oz) can tomato sauce
- Gbotemi spice blend (cloves, anise, ajwain, cardamom seeds roasted and ground then mixed with ground ginger)
- salt
- black pepper
For the akoumé
- ½ cup cornflour
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ⅓ cup potato starch
Instructions
Gboma Dessi
- In a pressure cooker with a little oil, saute an onion, a clove of garlic and ginger for 2 minutes.
- Add the meat, salt, pepper and 1 cube of chicken bouillon. Cover with water.
- Close the pressure cooker. Cook over high heat to build up the pressure until the first whistle.
- Then reduce heat and cook for 45 minutes (or more depending on the meat and the pressure cooker).
- Remove the meat from the pan, drain and place in a bowl. Keep the broth in the pot. Season the meat with gbotemi.
- While the meat is cooking, wash the spinach leaves. Boil in salted boiling water for 15 minutes, then cut into thin slices.
- Sauté 2 onions and 2 cloves garlic in a saucepan with remaining palm oil (or vegetable oil).
- Add the tomato puree. Stir regularly for at least 15 minutes. Season with pepper, 1 cube of bouillon, hot peppers.
- Add the broth to the pot. Boil over medium heat for 20-25 minutes.
- Add drained spinach leaves, then meat. Simmer for at least 15-20 minutes.
Akoumé
- In a saucepan, pour 2 cups (500ml) of water. Add maize flour and mix with a wooden spoon.
- Bring to a boil, add the wheat flour and stir vigorously.
- Dilute starch potato in 1 cup (200ml) of water. Pour into pan.
- Stir vigorously for 2-3 minutes. Cover the pot and cook over medium heat for 5 minutes.
- Once the dough ready, it's time to shape. To do this, take a ball of dumpling and place it in an empty bowl. Rotate the bowl a few times to obtain a uniform ball.
- Serve dessi gboma on top of this dumpling in the bowl or you can place the dumpling in a banana leaf and serve gboma dessi on the side.
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