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Soup Tektek

Name: Soup Tektek
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Seychelles
Ingredients: 400g (purged of sand) Clams; 200g Pumpkin; 1 Onion; 2 cloves Garlic; 1 piece Ginger; A pinch Thyme; 1 Tomato; 1 tbsp Vegetable oil; A pinch Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 800ml Water

Soup

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Little beach clams simmered with pumpkin and ginger — a gentle Seychellois soup.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Tektek are little clams living at the water's edge on Seychelles beaches, which children pick up by hand as the waves retreat. Soup tektek simmers them with pumpkin, onion, ginger, and thyme into a gentle soup loved in island homes.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Seychelles beach in the evening, children gather little clams at the water's edge and simmer them into soup with pumpkin at home.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Clams 400g (purged of sand)
Pumpkin 200g
Onion 1
Garlic 2 cloves
Ginger 1 piece
Thyme A pinch
Tomato 1
Vegetable oil 1 tbsp
Salt A pinch
Black Pepper A pinch
Water 800ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Heat oil in a pot and sauté the chopped onion, garlic, and ginger.
Add the diced pumpkin and chopped tomato and sauté.
Add the water and thyme and simmer 15 minutes.
Add the clams and simmer 5 minutes until they open.
Season with salt and pepper.

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