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Kondre

Name: Kondre
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Cameroon
Ingredients: 4 Plantain; 500g Lamb; 2 Tomato; 1 Onion; 2 cloves Garlic; 1 knob Ginger; 1 Chili pepper; 3 tbsp Palm oil; 1 1/2 tsp Salt; 800ml Water

Main Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Green plantains stewed with goat meat and spices — a festive dish from western Cameroon.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kondre is a dish of the Bamileke people of western Cameroon. Green plantains and goat or beef are stewed with tomato, onion, garlic, ginger, and spices. It's cooked in big pots for weddings and celebrations, and the starchy plantains soak up the flavor of the meat.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a feast day in a highland village in western Cameroon, plantains and meat stew in a huge pot and are dished out to the gathered crowd.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Plantain 4
Lamb 500g
Tomato 2
Onion 1
Garlic 2 cloves
Ginger 1 knob
Chili pepper 1
Palm oil 3 tbsp
Salt 1 1/2 tsp
Water 800ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the meat into bite-sized pieces, salt lightly, and brown in a pot.
Add chopped onion, grated garlic and ginger, tomato, and chili and stir-fry.
Add water, cover, and simmer for 50 minutes.
Peel the plantains, cut into large pieces, and add with the palm oil.
Simmer for 20 minutes until the plantains are tender and season with salt.

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