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Palaver Sauce

Name: Palaver Sauce
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Ghana
Ingredients: 2 bunches Spinach; 4 tbsp Palm oil; 2 White Fish Fillet; 2 tbsp Dried shrimp; 1 Onion; 2 Tomato; 50g Ground melon seeds; 1 Red Chili Pepper; 2 Egg; 1 tsp Salt; To taste Cooked rice

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Spinach-like greens and egusi (melon seeds) stewed in palm oil — Ghana's rich green stew.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Palaver sauce is a stew of chopped kontomire (young taro leaves) or spinach-like greens cooked with palm oil, fish, and agushi (egusi), ground melon seeds. The name comes from 'palaver,' meaning a quarrel; one theory is that it was once so laborious it caused arguments over how well it was made. It's eaten with boiled yam, plantain, or rice.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a village kitchen, freshly picked greens are chopped and added to a pot of brightly colored palm oil as a grandmother stirs slowly.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Spinach 2 bunches
Palm oil 4 tbsp
White Fish Fillet 2
Dried shrimp 2 tbsp
Onion 1
Tomato 2
Ground melon seeds 50g
Red Chili Pepper 1
Egg 2
Salt 1 tsp
Cooked rice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Blanch the spinach, squeeze dry, and chop finely.
Dry-toast the pumpkin seeds in a frying pan and grind to a powder in a mortar.
Heat the palm oil in a pot and sauté the chopped onion, chopped tomato, and red chili, cooking them down.
Add the dried shrimp, ground pumpkin seeds, and 150ml water and simmer 5 minutes.
Add the white fish and cook through, add the spinach and mix, then drizzle in the beaten egg.
Season with salt and serve with rice.

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