Waakye Stew Recipe
A flavourful stew made with beef, onions, tomatoes, fish powder and shrimp powder. This stew is best eaten with waakye, a dish made from black-eyed peas/beans, rice and sorghum leaves.
Ingredients
- 1 kilogram beef
- 3 tablespoons ginger paste heaped
- 1 teaspoon anise seed
- 4 cloves
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste generous
- 7 large onions
- 6 medium fresh tomatoes
- 6 scotch bonnets
- 3 tablespoons shrimp powder heaped
- 4 tablespoons fish powder heaped
- salt to taste
- vegetable oil
Instructions
- Blend 1 whole onion with anise seeds and 1 tablespoon of ginger paste.
- Rinse the beef, add some salt, and steam with the anise seed, ginger paste mix, and the cloves.
- Steam over low heat for about 20 minutes, then adding water (enough to cover the meat) to get some stock.
- Simmer for a further 15 minutes.
- Take the beef out of the stock and fry until golden brown. Set aside
- Blend tomatoes with scotch bonnets and set them aside. Blend onions and set aside.
- In a large pot, add vegetable oil and then add tomato paste, stirring gently for about 3 minutes.
- Add ginger paste, and then onions to the pot and continue stirring for about 5 minutes.
- Pour in the blended tomatoes and leave to simmer for about 5 minutes.
- Add shrimp powder and fish powder.
- Let simmer for 10 minutes and then add stock from the meat.
- Add fried beef and then taste for salt. See notes.
- Let the stew simmer slowly over low heat until the meat is tender and the stew has reduced.
- Serve with waakye, rice, kenkey or boiled yam.
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Notes
- The stock and beef have some salt so be careful. Also the stew will reduce further and will become saltier.