Prepare your homemade hot spicy sauce to add to your traditional kenkey for taste.
Hot sauce can be combined with other traditional meals in Ghana; our popular braised rice (angwa mo), banku with assorted fish, and gari with boiled fresh fish all make a perfect finish when there’s good hot sauce to add to the taste.
Kenkey Hot Sauce
There is nothing as satisfactory as making your hot kenkey sauce taste similar or better than the popular Aunty Dromos who sells her kenkey behind the street. Add the right ingredients and not only enjoy the spicy taste but also the nutritious benefits, made with only natural ingredients.
Equipment
- 1 Earthenware bowl and wooden masher to achieve the traditional taste and texture
- 1 knife
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp salt
- 3 tomatoes fully ripe
- 5 red pepper can be green
- 2 medium-sized onions
- 2 cloves of garlic optional
Instructions
- Equipment and vegetables should be washed properly
- Wash the green or red peppers into the earthenware bowl, add 2 cloves of garlic and slice one already peeled onion into smaller size
- Add a pinch of salt to the vegetables
- When the mixture is almost smooth, carefully slice the washed tomatoes into the grinded mixture and grind to make smooth
- Taste the mixture and if the salt isn’t enough add enough to taste
- Slice the last onion into ring shapes and thin slices for garnish…
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Notes
Our hot Ghanaian kenkey sauce is ready and that too can be served with other meals. If you tried this out, hope this worked for you. Kindly leave your comments and if you have any more tricks to making hot sauce, kindly share.
Nutrition
Serving: 120g
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