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Makayabu

Name: Makayabu
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: DR Congo
Ingredients: 300g Salt Cod; 3 Tomato; 1 Onion; 1 Green Bell Pepper; 2 cloves Garlic; 1 Chili pepper; 3 tbsp Palm oil; 200ml Water; To taste Cooked rice

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Salt fish stewed with tomato and onion — a Congolese home staple.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Makayabu is Lingala for salt fish, mainly salted cod or catfish. The desalted fish is stewed with tomato, onion, green pepper, and palm oil and eaten with fufu, rice, or kwanga. Salty and deeply savory, it's loved in Congolese homes and eateries.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Kinshasa eatery at midday, a bowl of fish stewed in tomato is set on the table with white paste and rice.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Salt Cod 300g
Tomato 3
Onion 1
Green Bell Pepper 1
Garlic 2 cloves
Chili pepper 1
Palm oil 3 tbsp
Water 200ml
Cooked rice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the salt cod in water overnight to desalt and cut into bite-size pieces.
Heat the palm oil in a pot and sauté the onion, garlic, and green pepper.
Add the chopped tomatoes, chili, and water and simmer 15 minutes.
Add the salt cod and simmer gently 15 minutes so it doesn't break up.
Serve with rice.

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