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West African Stew (Dom-ah-Dah)

Ingredients

Chicken (other meat or fish can be used)
Fresh tomatoes
Tomato Puree
Fresh peppers, chili peppers can be used dependant on how spicy you want your dish
Single Cream
Paprika
Garlic
Peanut Butter

(In the Gambia they would use water instead of cream and fresh peanuts that would also be ground into a paste. Sweet tomatoes would be used. You can add other ingridents if you wish)

Dice the chicken and cook in hot olive oil
Add the garlic to the chicken and stir in
Remove the chicken from the pan and set to the side
Cut the tomatoes and dice the peppers
Put the peppers and tomatoes in the pot and cook until the tomatoes start to break down. Add the tomato puree. When there is some moisture in the pan add about four large spoonfuls of peanut butter. Stir this in until it thickens. Add some cream and contiue to alternate between cream and peanut butter until you have a good consistency add the chicken back to the dish and stir into the sauce. You should now complete the dish to your own taste and serve with rice

Dom-ah-dah is a recipe handed down from mother to daughter and there is no formal measure of quanity. You need to select enough quanity of the main ingredient, dependant on the number of guests you have and then produce enough sauce to cover this. It can be a little hit and miss but its successful regardless of mixture of quanities. You will eventually achieve the taste you prefer.