Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Quick Bongo Lobé

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As for the number of servings that can be served to make Bongo Lobé is 2 - 4 servings. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.

Just in addition, the time it takes to cook Bongo Lobé estimated approx 30 minutes.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have Bongo Lobé using 16 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The Chutes de la Lobé situated in the Republic of Cameroon are breathtaking waterfalls that crash down rugged rocks and plunge directly into the Atlantic Ocean. A few minutes drive north is a charming restaurant Au Plaisir du Gout (to the pleasure of taste) on the beach overlooking the Gulf of Guinea and here you will find the most simple yet divine Cameroonian dishes, complimenting the beautiful fish caught daily. Bongo is a spicy stew and a favourite of the Bassa people of Cameroon. Its distinctive taste and black colour is from burning mbongo sticks over a hot open flame. It is then ground and blended into a paste with dried njangsa kernals from the fruit of the corkwood tree which look a little like dried chickpeas and add a nutty flavour, tomatoes, onions and a wonderful nutmeg spice called ehuru which adds notes of tobacco, cloves and citrus. This exotic paste is used to flavour the local catch of the day, typically barracuda or catfish but works equally well with chicken or pork. The dish is cooked over a fire and served with boiled plantain and a side of kumba bread. Get B-boying with Stanley Enow and this dish can be rustled up in just under half an hour! It’s certainly a mad colour and has a really unusual flavour, the likes of which you probably haven’t come across before. Note: Ehuru isn’t the easiest African spice to find but it can easily be replaced with ¼ tsp black cardamom seeds, ½ tsp coriander seeds and ¼ of a nutmeg, ground to a fine powder.

Ingredients and spices that need to be Get to make Bongo Lobé:

1. 2-4 fish fillets, I used hake
2. 4 tsps ground mbongo spice
3. 30 njangsa kernals
4. 3/4-1 tsp salt plus a pinch
5. 3 medium tomatoes, chopped
6. 1 onion, cut in two
7. 1/2 celery stalk, chopped
8. 7 garlic cloves, peeled
9. 2.5 cm (1”) ginger, peeled
10. 1 tbsp dried parsley
11. 2 ehuru seeds
12. 1/4 teaspoon white pepper
13. 2 dried chillies
14. 1 tbsp oil
15. 2 Maggi seasoning cubes
16. 2 spring onions, sliced for garnishing (optional)

Steps to make to make Bongo Lobé

1. Clean the fish and cut into steaks. Rinse well, sprinkle with a pinch of salt and set aside.
2. Make the ehuru spice. Blend the tomatoes, ½ the onion, celery, garlic, ginger, parsley, ehuru, njangsa and mbongo spice with half a cup of water to form a paste. Pour the blended mixture over the fish and let it rest. There is enough paste for several pieces of fish.
3. In a pot, heat the oil. Chop the other half of onion and saute in the oil until translucent. Add fish and the spice mixture to the sauteed onions. Scatter Maggi cubes over and add the salt and white pepper. Prick the dried chillies and add them too.
4. Add another half to one cup of water, cover and simmer until fish is cooked, approximately 12 - 15 minutes, turning the fish halfway. Scatter with spring onions and serve with kumba bread and boiled plantain.

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