COPPERDaraba recipe
Daraba is a Chadian okra stew with sweet potato and greens, thickened with peanut paste and eaten with boule.
Ingredients
- 500 g okra
- 150 g peanut butter
- 400 g sweet potato
- 3 tomatoes
- 200 g leafy greens
- 1 onion
- 1 fresh chili pepper
- 1 tsp salt
- 1000 ml water
How to make Daraba
- Peel 400 g of sweet potato and cut into 2 cm cubes; chop 3 tomatoes and 1 onion; slice 500 g of okra into rounds.
- Put the sweet potato, tomatoes, onion and 1 chopped fresh chili in a pot with 1 litre of water and 1 tsp of salt; boil for 15 minutes.
- Add the okra and cook for 10 minutes, until the sauce turns slightly slimy.
- Add 200 g of chopped greens (spinach or cassava leaves) and cook for 5 minutes.
- Thin 150 g of unsweetened peanut butter with a ladle of the hot liquid, stir it into the pot and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes, stirring so it does not catch, until the sauce thickens.
- Taste for salt and serve hot with boule.
What is Daraba?
Daraba is a traditional dish from Chad, simmered in one pot, and takes about 55 minutes from start to finish. It is built around okra, sweet potato and leafy greens. The recipe below uses 9 ingredients and is written out step by step.
How long does Daraba take?
At 55 minutes it is quicker than 80% of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas. Copper's atlas has 19 dishes built on okra. The method runs to 6 steps, the longest being 15 minutes.
Any tips for making Daraba?
Thin the peanut butter with hot broth before adding it, then stir while it simmers so the sauce thickens without sticking.
How Daraba compares
Leafy greens appears in only 2 other dishes in the atlas.
Cooked with the same thing elsewhere
Other traditional dishes built on leafy greens, from other countries.
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