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Daraba

Name: Daraba
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Chad
Ingredients: 200g Okra; 2 Eggplant; 2 Tomato; 1 Onion; 4 tbsp Peanut butter; 1/2 bunch Spinach; 1 Chili pepper; 1 tsp Salt; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 500ml Water

Main Dish

⏱ 50 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Okra, eggplant, and tomato stewed with peanut butter — Chad's vegetable stew.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Daraba is a vegetable stew made widely in Chad: okra, eggplant, tomato, sweet potato leaves, and more are simmered thick with peanut butter. It's often meatless and eaten with boule or rice. Its hallmarks are the okra's silkiness and the richness of the peanuts.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a house beside a Chadian market, a pot packed with okra and eggplant gives off a peanut aroma and is served with boule.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Okra 200g
Eggplant 2
Tomato 2
Onion 1
Peanut butter 4 tbsp
Spinach 1/2 bunch
Chili pepper 1
Salt 1 tsp
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp
Water 500ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Slice the okra into 1cm rounds, dice the eggplant, and chop the onion and tomato.
Heat oil in a pot, sauté the onion, and add the tomato and chili.
Add the eggplant and water and simmer 10 minutes.
Add the okra and the peanut butter dissolved in some of the liquid and simmer 15 minutes.
Add the roughly chopped spinach and salt and simmer 3 minutes to finish.

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