Delicious Ampesi Recipe
Ampesi can be prepared by using unripped plantain, cassava, yam or cocoyam. It is rich in carbohydrates and other nutrients and also makes a perfect dinner.
Ingredients
Ingredients for the Ampesi.
- 1 tuber yam
- 3 pieces unripe plantain
- 2 tbsp salt
Ingredients for the kontomire stew
- 10 pieces kontomire (cocoyam) leaves
- 4 pieces tomato
- 1/2 cup turkey berries optional
- 3 medium-sized onions
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 pound smoked fish
- 1 cup palm oil
- Seasoning
- 2 tbsp grounded shrimp
- Salt
- Pepper
- Salted fish (Koobi)
Instructions
Preparing Ampesi
- Peel yam, cocoyam into a cooking pot.
- Wash them thoroughly and put into another cooking pot.
- Half fill the cooking pot with water
- Peel your unripe plantain, wash them and arrange them on top of the yam and cocoyam
- Add reasonable amount of salt
- Boil over high heat for about 10 minutes.
- Pour out the water and set aside
- The ampesi is ready
Preparing the kotnomire stew
- Wash kontomire and turkey berries thoroughly and put into a clean saucepan
- Boil under medium heat until it softens
- Blend onions, garlic, tomatoes, pepper and turkey berries together.
- Pour into a bowl and set aside
- Remove bones from the fish, wash it, break into pieces and set aside.
- Pour palm oil into a saucepan and place it over medium heat.
- Cut salted fish into pieces and put it inside the oil together with the momoni.
- Pour blended content into the cooking oil and stir.
- Simmer on medium heat.
- Add salmon, salt and seasoning cubes and cover it.
- Simmer for about 10 minutes till the stew thickens.
- Serve with ampesi (boiled yam, plantain and cocoyam)
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Notes
Ampesi is a main meal in Ghana commonly served with garden eggs stew or kontomire stew.
Nutrition
Calories: 120kcal
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