Nutrition
Shito
With many students set to enter second-cycle and tertiary institutions this year, parents and guardians are already preparing to provide their wards with the essentials they need for school. The Nutrition page has a simple method of preparing shito.
Shito is a Ghanaian hot pepper sauce made with ingredients such as dried chilli peppers, dried fish, ginger and oil. It is used in various dishes, especially rice-based meals and swallows.
Ingredients
- 1 litre of oil
- 70 grams of fresh onion
- 100 grams of tomato paste
- 40 grams of powdered pepper
- 30 grams of ginger
- 30 grams of fish powder
- 10 grams of powdered garlic
- 30 grams of powdered shrimps
- 30 grams of powdered herrings
- Salt to taste
Preparation
- Pound or blend dry hot pepper together with fresh ginger.
- Pound or blend dry shrimps and dried herrings.
- Grind onion, garlic and hot pepper.
- Heat oil.
- Add the ground or blended onions, garlic and pepper.
- Allow it to cook for a while.
- Add powdered shrimps and powdered dried herrings.
- Cover and allow to cook further until all the water has evaporated.
- Add pounded hot pepper, stir, cover and allow to cook.
- Add fish powder and continue stirring to avoid burning.
- Cook until the sauce is dark brown in colour. Take off the heat and serve with rice, waakye, gari, jollof rice, etc.
- By Linda Abrefi Wadie
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