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Torborgee

Name: Torborgee
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Liberia
Ingredients: 2 Eggplant; 300g Beef; 2 tbsp Miso; 150g White Fish Fillet; 1 Onion; 2 Chili pepper; 3 tbsp Palm oil; 1/2 tsp Salt; 500ml Water; To taste Cooked rice

Main Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Fermented beans and meat stewed with chili — Liberia's pungent stew.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Torborgee is a traditional Liberian stew made with fermented beans such as African locust beans, with a strong, distinctive aroma and deep savoriness. It's stewed with eggplant, meat, smoked fish, chili, and palm oil and served over rice. Opinions are divided, but for Liberians it's a nostalgic taste.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Liberian village home, a pungent brown stew is ladled from the pot over white rice.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Eggplant 2
Beef 300g
Miso 2 tbsp
White Fish Fillet 150g
Onion 1
Chili pepper 2
Palm oil 3 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Water 500ml
Cooked rice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the beef into bite-size pieces and simmer with the onion, chili, and water for 30 minutes.
Dice the eggplant, add, and simmer 15 minutes.
Lightly mash the eggplant to thicken.
Stir in the miso and palm oil, add the fish, and simmer 10 minutes.
Season with salt and serve with rice.

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