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Kajaik

Name: Kajaik
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: South Sudan
Ingredients: 200g Dried Cod; 2 Tomato; 1 Onion; 3 tbsp Peanut butter; 2 cloves Garlic; 1 Chili pepper; 3 tbsp Vegetable Oil; A pinch Salt; 500ml Water

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Dried fish stewed with tomato, onion, and peanuts — a Nile dish of South Sudan.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kajaik is a dried fish stew made in South Sudan. Fish from the White Nile and the Sudd wetlands is sun-dried for keeping, then soaked and stewed with tomato, onion, and peanut paste. It's eaten with walwal or kisra.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On the banks of the White Nile in South Sudan, fish dry on mats and are then stewed in tomato sauce in a pot at home.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Dried Cod 200g
Tomato 2
Onion 1
Peanut butter 3 tbsp
Garlic 2 cloves
Chili pepper 1
Vegetable Oil 3 tbsp
Salt A pinch
Water 500ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the dried cod in water overnight and flake into bite-size pieces.
Heat oil in a pot and sauté the chopped onion and garlic.
Add the chopped tomato and chili and sauté 5 minutes.
Add the fish and water and simmer 15 minutes.
Stir in the peanut butter, simmer 10 minutes, and season with salt.

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