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Ebinyebwa

Name: Ebinyebwa
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Uganda
Ingredients: 6 tbsp Peanut butter; 50g Peanuts; 1 Onion; 2 Tomato; 400ml Water; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Curry Powder

Side Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Ground peanuts simmered with tomato — the peanut sauce essential on Ugandan tables.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Ebinyebwa is a rich peanut sauce made in Ugandan homes: roasted peanuts are ground to a powder and slowly simmered with tomato and onion. It's poured over staples like matoke, sweet potato, or cassava, and sometimes dried fish or mushrooms are added. Providing protein even without meat, it's a dependable dish on the Ugandan table.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Ugandan farmhouse kitchen, peanut sauce bubbles thick in a pot over charcoal and is poured generously beside mashed banana.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Peanut butter 6 tbsp
Peanuts 50g
Onion 1
Tomato 2
Water 400ml
Salt 1 tsp
Curry Powder A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Finely chop the onion and tomato.
Simmer the water, onion, and tomato in a pot for 10 minutes.
Dissolve the peanut butter in a little of the liquid, add, and mix well.
Simmer on low for 15 minutes, stirring so it doesn't scorch, and season with salt and curry powder.
Scatter with crushed peanuts and serve with matoke or sweet potatoes.

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