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Senegal Stew

An interesting West African (Senegal ) vegetable stew served with millet.
This main course dish makes 4 good portions.

Ingredients

2 medium onions
2 cloves garlic
500 gm cabbage
30 ml cooking oil
300 gm swede
250 gm carrots
450 gm sweet potato
200 gm dried chickpeas
450 gm millet
400 gm tin of tomatoes
250 ml stock (or chick pea liquid)
30 ml FAIRTRADE Peanut butter
2.5 ml ground red pepper
2.5 ml FAIRTRADE ground ginger
2.5 ml cumin
2.5 ml ground coriander
2.5 ml thyme
FAIRTRADE Sources
Cashew Nut Butter
Peanut Butter
Herbs and Spices

Method

Preparation
Soak the chickpeas overnight.
Top, tail, skin and slice the onions.
Trim the cabbage and chop into largish chunks.
Peel and cube the sweet potato.
Peel and cube the swede.
Peel and slice the carrots.
Assemble the herbs and spices.

Cooking
Start by cooking the chick peas in the ususal way.
In a large le creuset pan, heat the oil and stir fry the cabbage, onions and garlic until softened. ( 3 or 4 minutes).
Add the herbs and spices and continue to stir.
Add the tomatoes, stock and peanut butter and stir until smooth.
Add the potato, swede, carrots and cooked chick peas.
Heat to the boil, turn down to a simmer, cover, and simmer for 30 minutes.
Put the millet on to cook (1 litre of boiling water, takes 20 minutes).

To serve

Serve the millet in a separate dish.

Variation

Substitute vegetables as necessary, courgettes, cauliflower, parsnips, new potatoes.
Substitute curry powder for the spices.
Grains other than Millett can be used.