Arachid Sauce

Recipe origin: Côte d'Ivoire

Ingredients

• 2 Tablespoons peanut butter
• Water
• 4 pimentos (a type of pepper)
• 20 cherry tomatoes, mashed
• Meat (beef, chicken, or fish)
• Pinch of salt
• 1 Tablespoon oil
• ½ small onion

Procedure

1. Place the peanut butter in a pot and add 4 Tablespoons water.
2. Mix well until it is sauce-like and add 1 cup water.
3. Bring the sauce to a boil and add 2 more cups of water over a 25-minute period.
4. Add the pimentos.
5. Take 12 cherry tomatoes, remove the seeds, and mash.
6. Add the tomato mash and another 4 cups of water to the sauce and continue to boil.
7. After 50 minutes of boiling, add 2½ more cups of water, then let it boil again gently for 20 minutes.
8. Add precooked meat of choice and a pinch of salt and keep boiling for an addition 35 minutes.
9. Add the remaining cherry tomatoes, prepared as before, the oil, and the mashed onion.
10. Cook for at least 15 more minutes.

Serves 4 to 6.