Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, shito stew. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Shito (also called shitor) is a famous Ghanaian hot chile condiment, akin to a relish, with a deep, earthy, smoky, fishy flavor.. Cheese on toast, rice and stew, fish and chips. Shito is the word for pepper in Ga, a Ghanaian language from Accra, the Ghanaian capital.
Shito stew is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Shito stew is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook shito stew using 8 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Shito stew:
- Take chili flakes
- Take large sized onion
- Make ready ginger(blended)
- Prepare Garlic(optional)
- Prepare seasoning
- Get Small amount
- Take iced fish
- Get Enough oil for frying
It consists of kpakpo green shito peppers, and it is often used as an accompaniment to fish dishes or kenkey. It is also eaten with steamed white rice, fried plantains, green vegetables, eba and waakye (a dish made from rice and beans). Shito is particularly popular and consumed in Ghana. The shito is indeed an icing to the cake.
Steps to make Shito stew:
- Using mortar and pestle beat your cloves and ginger together until soft or use your grinder and grind it to smaller particles
- Add in your chili flakes and continue beating (the chili flakes should not be too soft)
- Add your sliced onion inside and continue beating until it softens, add fried iced fish and beat it but not too far
- Until it look like this
- Heat oil in a pot
- Add the mixture when hot
- Add seasoning
- Stir fry for 15-20 minutes
- Or until it looks brown in colour
- And tanaaaaa here it is
- I served it with rice and beans and its very delicious and simple
- Note: the idea for putting much oil is so that it will not burn when frying and you will be able to keep it for at least 1 week before it get spoiled
The spices incorporated make you want to demand for more. Ghana harbors a haven for amazing cuisine, and the food is very nutritious. The nutritive value of shito comprises of sodium and potassium. Shito is a Ghanaian sauce which I literally use for everything since I started making it. I could say with confidence that Shito is to Ghanaians what Agoyin sauce is to Nigerians.
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