Ingredients
- young banana leaves
- 250 g clean mushrooms
- 500 g groundnut paste (crushed groundnuts mixed with water
- 1 onion
- 3 tomatoes
- 2 garlic cloves
- 30 g curry powder
- 1 tea spoon salt
- banana fibers
Ingredients for 3 medium-sized mpombo (plural of luwombo)
Method
- 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.
- Soak the mushrooms in a bowl of cold water and, in another bowl, dissolve the groundnut paste in cold water
- 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.
- Add a little salt and pour in the groundnut. Wrap up and tie to close with a banana fiber.
- 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
- Cover everything with three or four fresh banana leaves and put on the fire to start steaming.
- 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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