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Palm Butter

Name: Palm Butter
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Liberia
Ingredients: 500g Chicken Thigh; 5 tbsp Palm oil; 200ml Coconut cream; 200g White Fish Fillet; 1 Onion; 1 Chili pepper; 1 1/2 tsp Salt; 500ml Water; To taste Cooked rice

Main Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Meat or fish stewed in a rich palm-nut sauce — Liberia's Sunday dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Palm butter is Liberia's signature dish: chicken, beef, or smoked fish is stewed in a thick sauce made by boiling and pounding oil-palm nuts. The rich orange sauce is poured over white rice or eaten with dumboy (pounded cassava). It's the classic Sunday lunch after church.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Liberian Sunday, at a table where the family has gathered after church, rich orange stew is poured over a big platter of white rice.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Chicken Thigh 500g
Palm oil 5 tbsp
Coconut cream 200ml
White Fish Fillet 200g
Onion 1
Chili pepper 1
Salt 1 1/2 tsp
Water 500ml
Cooked rice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the chicken into bite-size pieces and simmer in water with the onion, chili, and salt for 20 minutes.
Add the palm oil and coconut cream.
Simmer 30 minutes, stirring, until thick.
Add the bite-size fish and simmer 10 minutes.
Pour over rice to eat.

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