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Gboma Dessi

Name: Gboma Dessi
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Togo
Ingredients: 2 bunches Spinach; 300g Beef; 15g Dried shrimp; 2 Tomato; 1 tbsp Tomato paste; 1 Onion; 1 Chili pepper; 3 tbsp Palm oil; 1 tsp Salt; 300ml Water

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Spinach-like greens stewed with meat or fish and tomato — a Togolese home stew.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Gboma dessi is a home dish of Togo and Benin: gboma, a spinach-like green, is stewed with beef, smoked fish, tomato, onion, and palm oil. Using plenty of greens, it's loved as a nourishing dish and eaten with akoumé, rice, or boiled tubers.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At dinner in a Togolese home, a pot of green and meat stew is set beside a plate of white corn paste.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Spinach 2 bunches
Beef 300g
Dried shrimp 15g
Tomato 2
Tomato paste 1 tbsp
Onion 1
Chili pepper 1
Palm oil 3 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 300ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the beef into bite-size pieces and simmer 30 minutes with salt and water.
Heat the palm oil in a pot and fry the onion, tomato, tomato paste, and chili for 10 minutes.
Add the beef with its cooking liquid and the dried shrimp and simmer 10 minutes.
Add the blanched, chopped spinach.
Simmer 5 minutes and season with salt.

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