Palm Oil Stew

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Top of the Day to you all :). Hope you're having a wonderful weekend. So i woke up this morning with a  strong Craving for Palm oil stew and after the early morning service, i scurried to the market to get ingredients for this native dish. Palm oil stew is a traditional stew which is quite popular in the villages and road side food hawkers. As a classic Nigerian dish, it is referred to as “Alapa” and it is highly nutritious due to the nutrients in the tomato puree and the high level of Beta carotene contained in palmoil. Alapa can be enjoyed with rice, Beans (Agoyin in my favorite), Fries i.e plantain, potatoes, yams and just about anything 

Ingredients

*3 Cooking spoons of Palm Oil

*7 medium sized fresh tomatoes

*4 medium sized chilli peppers

*1 yellow pepper

*2 medium sized onions

*4 garlic cloves

*1kg cubed Beef/ chicken (Stock fish could be used instead of meat)

*Seasoning (Maggi/knorr) & Salt to taste

Procedure
-Blend the fresh tomatoes, peppers, garlic and onions together

-Place the pieces of meat (or stock fish) into a clean pot and slice one onion into it, Season with Maggi and salt then cook till tender

-In a dry pot, Heat the palm oil (Make sure the kitchen is well ventilated to avoid smoke inhalation) for about 3minutes then add the tomato puree and stir consistently

-Finally, Add the meat stock with the meat inclusive and stir thoroughly then allow to simmer for about 10-15mins.

-Remove from the burner and serve with Rice or yam. It can also be eaten with Okra or ewedu soup and served with any form of “Swallow”