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Lamounou Dessi

Name: Lamounou Dessi
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Togo
Ingredients: 400g Chicken Thigh; 5 tbsp Peanut butter; 2 Tomato; 1 Onion; 1 Chili pepper; 1 piece Ginger; 1 1/2 tsp Salt; 1L Water

Soup

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Meat or fish stewed in peanut paste — Togo's rich soup.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Lamounou dessi is Togo's peanut soup: chicken, goat, or smoked fish is stewed with tomato, onion, and chili and finished creamy with peanut paste. It's eaten with akoumé, fufu (pounded tuber paste), or rice, and often made on Sundays and when guests come.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At Sunday lunch in Togo, a pot of thick peanut-colored soup is set out as white paste is torn by hand and dipped in.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Chicken Thigh 400g
Peanut butter 5 tbsp
Tomato 2
Onion 1
Chili pepper 1
Ginger 1 piece
Salt 1 1/2 tsp
Water 1L

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the chicken into bite-size pieces and simmer in water with half the onion, the ginger, and salt for 20 minutes.
Blend the tomatoes, remaining onion, and chili, add, and simmer 10 minutes.
Thin the peanut butter with some of the liquid and add.
Simmer 20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until thick.
Season with salt.

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