Does anyone know about FUFU and Goat Meat with the red sauce.?!
Does anyone know about FUFU and Goat Meat with the red sauce.?
African Food
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Fufu, also spelled foofoo, foufou, or fu fu, is a staple food of West and Central Africa. It is a thick paste or porridge usually made by boiling starchy root vegetables in water and pounding with a large mortar and pestle until the desired consistency is reached, but other starchy plants such as plantain may be used. Fufu may also be made by boiling flour made from root vegetables or grain in water, stirring vigorously with a wooden paddle until thick. In French-speaking countries in sub-Saharan Africa, fufu is often called cous-cous.
In Western Africa, foofoo is usually made from yams, sometimes combined with cocoyam, plantains, or maize. In Central Africa, fufu is often made from cassava, as is the Liberian dumboy. Fufu can also be made from semolina, rice, or even instant potato flakes. The dish is traditionally made by pounding and beating the base substance in a mortar with a wooden spoon. In more modern contexts, a food processor may also be used.
In Western and Central Africa, the more common method is to serve a mound of fufu along with a sauce made from okra, fish, tomato, etc. The diner pinches off a small ball of fufu and makes an indentation with the thumb. This reservoir is then filled with sauce, and the ball is eaten. In Ghana, the ball is often not chewed but swallowed whole in the manner one would swallow pills. In fact, among the older generation, chewing fufu is a faux-pas.
A similar staple in Sub-Saharan Africa is ugali, which is usually made from maize flour and is eaten in southern and east Africa. The name ugali is used in Kenya and Tanzania; closely related staples are called nshima in Zambia, nsima in Malawi, sadza in Zimbabwe, pap in South Africa, posho in Uganda and ghaat in Eritrea and Ethiopia.
In Carribean nations with populations of west African origin, such as Cuba and the Dominican Republic, plantains are mashed and then other ingredients are added to the plantain mash, such fried onions, garlic, or olive oil, vinegar, or seasoned morsels of chicken or bacon. In Cuba it is called fufu de platano, in the Dominican Republic mangu, and in Puerto Rico mofongo.
Foo-foo is frequently mentioned in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
Hope this helps! =)
Frog brains and applesauce is my favorite dish
Where I used to live in Toronto Canada, there was this charming Ghanan Restaurant around the corner on Wilson Av called the "Acra".
I would order the Goat and Okra stew with Fufu everytime, the lady who was the owner/chef used to make it everyday, and showed me how to make it, and with all the East/West African people in Toronto, I would imagine it easier to find.
It is an acquired taste, but it very health and full of protein and vitamins.