Best Akpessi Banana recipe (plantain)
With this recipe, I take you to Côte d'Ivoire. With our closest brothers 😄, well if you are Cameroonian, of course! This recipe is one of the 10 most popular dishes in the country . I know that everyone here knows the Attiéké Poisson and the Alloco, but that's not all there is in Côte d'Ivoire huh?! 😁
What is Akpessi?
Akpessi is a traditional Ivorian dish . I read somewhere that the villagers generally serve this dish in the morning for breakfast. Akpessi's "K" does not pronounce pronunciation, therefore, we say "apessi" 😀 .. it is a simple and light sauce prepared with African eggplant , tomatoes , onions and fish .
Here, I once again insist on the word "African" when I speak of eggplant, because there are many varieties of eggplant. The best known eggplants are the violets, but that's not what I'm talking about. I found mine in an Afoshop, and if you live in Africa, I'm sure you will easily find it on the market.
This recipe is ideal for people who do not eat meat. The main ingredient remains the fish . Well, most of the time, we crumble the fish and mix it once with the sauce, but in this recipe here, I preferred to fry next to it and not mix. If you decide to fry it, I have a little tip for you: wind your fish in flour so that it is always so pretty pretty at the end 😁.
What is the Akpessi with? : Akpessi banana, yam akpessi?
The Akpessi is served either with plantain boil (plantain bananas), hence the name Akpessi banana (plantain banana), but it can also be served with yam, in this case we say Akpessi of yam . So it's the same sauce, the same recipe but just with a different complement 😉 As I am not a very big fan of yams, I did it with plantains, anyway I even like the plantains 😆 first too much.
How to cook the Akpessi?
Akpessi's recipe is very simple and easy to prepare . Once you have washed your vegetables, just cook them together, then crush them in a tail or (Asanka Bowl, Ghanaian name). I absolutely wanted to have such a bowl before making this recipe, but there were none in the afroshops of my small town here. So I had to crush with an electric robot.
What works very well too, I don't mean the opposite, but I absolutely wanted to do it in a traditional way. 🙈… This is still what the bowl in question looks like, I was able to find an image online.
For the sauce, we also use the adjuvant . It is a seasoning that I had never heard of until I discover this recipe 😄.The popular in West Africa, it is known as Lanhouin in Benin and Guedj in Senegal . As you can guess, it was impossible for me to find it at Afroshop… really impossible 😂
In Côte d'Ivoire , the name "Adjuevan" comes from the language of the Baoulé. "Djoué" means fish and "n 'van" means smell . It is therefore a spice made from the fish
I found this image in an online store Senegalese to show you a little what it looks like 😊. The fish is kept raw for a while in order to soften it, which gives it a particular smell. It is then used as a condiment to improve the taste of dishes.
Let's go to the recipe, do not hesitate to tell me if you try it, I would be really delighted to read your comments. If you are interested in Ivorian cuisine, here is the recipe for the national dish: Garba
Akpessi Banana (plantain)
Ingredients
- 4 Plantain
- 5 African Aubergines
- 2 fresh tomatoes
- 1-2 optional pepper
- 3 onions
- 3 garlic cloves
- oil
- 50 grams of leaning shrimp
- salt, pepper
- 2 Pisces
- Garlic, powdered ginger
Instructions
- Peel the plantain and boil for 20 minutes
- Clean the fish and season it with salt, pepper, garlic and powdered ginger. If you have time, let it marinate for a minimum hour, otherwise it does not matter
- Take the eggplant and carefully wash your vegetables.
- Put the fresh tomatoes, the eggplants, 2 onions and the chilli in a small saucepan and cover it with water. Cook everything for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, cut 1 onion and chop the garlic.
- Fry the fish in a hot oil bath.
- When the vegetables are cooked, reduce them puree using a blender.
- Pour a few tablespoons of oil into another little pot and brown the onion and garlic cut as well as the shrimp. Fry for 1 minute
- Then add the crushed eggplants. Simmer everything for 5 to 10 minutes.
- Simply season with salt and pepper. Your akpessi is ready
- Serve hot with fried fish and plantain bananas.
- Enjoy your food!
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