African Palmnut Concentrate

Or "Sauce Graine" in Francophone Africa. For use in soups and stews.

Palm nut is the fruit of the African oil palm. The African Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) is native to west Africa. The fruit is used to make palm wine, palm oil and palmnut concentrate.

Palmnut Concentrate from Côte d'Ivoire:



Palmnut stew recipe

Ox tail:


Chicken:


Crab:


Boil one ox trail, crab, chicken in plenty of water for 20 minutes. Instead of crab you can use prawn.





Add onion, tomato and hot peppers. After 15 minutes remove onion, tomato and hot peppers and mix into a puree and return to pot.




Return mixture to the pot:


Add palm nut cream according to taste. The more the heavier your stew will be. Stir. Simmer.


Add dried okra powder and season, according to the recipe. I used fresh okra.



Simmer until the sauce thickens but not too long! I made the mistake to simmer this stew for a couple of hours. The result was that the ox tail was fine but the chicken and the crab meat had completely dissolved into the sauce. Check the chicken while you stew and thicken the sauce with arrow root.



Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjun9iPAoIM