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Gabonese Sauce Gombo

Name: Gabonese Sauce Gombo
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Gabon
Ingredients: 300g Okra; 1 can Canned Mackerel; 1 Onion; 1 Tomato; 1 Chili pepper; 2 tbsp Palm oil; 1/2 tsp Salt; 300ml Water

Side Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Chopped okra simmered with fish — Gabon's thick, silky side sauce.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Gombo is French for okra. In Gabon, okra is finely chopped and simmered with smoked fish or meat into a thick, silky sauce. Its stretchiness clings nicely to cassava bread or rice, and it's made often at home.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Gabonese kitchen, okra is chopped fine on a cutting board and simmered with fish in a pot until thick.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Okra 300g
Canned Mackerel 1 can
Onion 1
Tomato 1
Chili pepper 1
Palm oil 2 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Water 300ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Chop the okra as finely as possible.
Heat the palm oil in a pot and sauté the chopped onion and tomato.
Add the water, flaked mackerel, and chili and simmer 5 minutes.
Add the okra and simmer 10 minutes, stirring.
When it thickens, season with salt.

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