Ndeye Diouf Maafe
Serving Size: 9
Ingredients:
1 Kg of sheep meat
500g of raw freshly grounded peanut butter
Vegetable oil
1 Chili pepper
1/2 liter of water
1 Maggi cube
2 small/ medium onion
1 package of tomato paste (about 2 tablespoons)
3 small tomato
1 large carrot
1 small eggplant
3 medium potatoes
1 small cabbage
1 yam medium
Salt
10 whole black pepper
White rice
Directions:
Heat a pot with some vegetable oil.
Cut the meat into inch size pieces.
Wash and peel the vegetables.
Cut the vegetables
Carrots - keep it whole or cut it in half the short way.
Yam - cut in half the short way.
Cabbage - keep whole.
Potatoes - cut in half the short way.
Eggplant - keep whole.
Tomato - dice into cubes.
Onions - dice into cubes.
Place the black pepper in the mortar. Once it is fine, throw in the onions and chili peppers. Mortar it until it's well incorporated.
Once the oil is heated, throw in the meat until it is cooked 3/4 of the way. Pour water over the meat, so it simmers. Put the package of tomato paste and the stuff from the mortar into the pot and stir. Turn the stove to medium heat.
Pour the rest of the oil into the pot and add the peanut butter. Add a pinch of salt to the pot. Crush the Maggi into the pot, stir, and let sit for 30 minutes.
Place the rest of the vegetables into the pot and cover until the vegetables become soft.
Once soft, take off the stove.
On the stove or in a rice cooker, cook the rice until it's nice and fluffy.
Grab a plate and cover it with rice so you can't see the bottom of the plate. Then pour some of the Maafe over the rice and enjoy it.
Note from Shea:
I love it when Ndeye Diouf puts more potatoes in the pot. Also, I prefer the yellow sweet potato in this dish.
*I know this recipe seems vague, and you're right. This dish is made by the eye of the cooker every single time. So I got this recipe by watching Ndeye Diouf cook this dish numerous times. It usually takes her about 8 hours to cook this one dish, so if it tastes like it needs something added, just let it cook longer. The longer you cook this dish, the more the flavors come through.
