Groundnut Soup with Fufu

I feel like my plating has gotten progressively worse week by week.

This was fun. The only West African dish I’d made before was jollof rice, so this was a step up. I couldn’t find plantain flour, and cassava flour was like 25 bucks at Whole Foods, so I found a recipe for making fufu from a cassava root and a plantain.

I think I remember an episode of House where they said cassava can be poisonous if it isn’t prepared correctly, something like cyanide poisoning. So if you haven’t heard from me recently… maybe call the cops for a welfare check.

Anywho, the rest of the dish was surprisingly simple. I added scotch bonnet for heat (I see you, Nigeria) and leg quarters for protein, browned the legs, and let it stew until it was fall-off-the-bone done.