How to cook Groundnut and Mushroom Luwombo


 

Ingredients

    Ingredients for 3 medium-sized mpombo (plural of luwombo)

  1. young banana leaves
  2. 250 g clean mushrooms
  3. 500 g groundnut paste (crushed groundnuts mixed with water
  4. 1 onion
  5. 3 tomatoes
  6. 2 garlic cloves
  7. 30 g curry powder
  8. 1 tea spoon salt
  9. banana fibers

Method

  1. Cut off the petiole and the entire midrib of the banana leaves, scorch the now clean banana leaf laminas on an open fire for a few seconds, and set them aside.
  2. Soak the mushrooms in a bowl of cold water and, in another bowl, dissolve the groundnut paste in cold water
  3. Chop the onion, tomatoes and garlic into very small pieces. Set the scorched banana leaves in a bowl one after the other, put in the mushrooms followed by the tomatoes, onions, garlic, and curry powder in reasonable amounts.
  4. Add a little salt and pour in the groundnut. Wrap up and tie to close with a banana fiber.
  5. Prepare a saucepan: Add water and set in the petiole and midribs previously cut from the banana leaves. Arrange them in such a way that they support the mpombo, avoiding contact with water. Cover them with another fresh banana leaf and set the mpombo on top
  6. Cover everything with three or four fresh banana leaves and put on the fire to start steaming.
  7. Cook for about an hour and serve with steamed green bananas, sweet potatoes, cassava, yam, or any food of your choice

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