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Futali

Side Dish
⏱ 40 min
👥 Serves 4
Difficulty ⭐

Sweet potato or pumpkin cooked and mashed with ground peanuts — Malawian home cooking.

#Malawi#SweetPotato#Peanuts#HomeCooking#Breakfast
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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Futali is Malawian home cooking: sweet potato or pumpkin is cooked in a little water and mashed together with crushed peanuts. Gently sweet and rich with peanuts, it's eaten for breakfast or a light meal and also made as nourishing food for children.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a morning in a Malawian home, orange sweet potato and peanut mash is spooned into wooden bowls.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

👩‍🍳 Instructions

  1. Toast the peanuts and grind to a powder.

  2. Peel and dice the sweet potatoes.

  3. Put the sweet potatoes and water in a pot, cover, and simmer 15 minutes.

  4. Add the ground peanuts and salt.

  5. Mash and mix with a wooden spoon and simmer 5 minutes.

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