Shito(ghana black pepper)
Shito(ghana black pepper)

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, shito(ghana black pepper). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Hi family, These are the spices I used: Anise seed Sage salvia Rosemary Thyme leaves Bay leaves I used just a pinch and three bay leaves. Its a sauce that is usually eaten hot or mild. This can be eaten with kenkey waakye rice yam bread or how ever you want it.

Shito(ghana black pepper) is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Shito(ghana black pepper) is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have shito(ghana black pepper) using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Shito(ghana black pepper):
  1. Take ATA GBEGBI(HAUSA DRIED PEPPER)(buy derica of dried pepper)
  2. Take 5 bulbs of onions
  3. Get Ground nut oil(much oil is needed)
  4. Prepare Cray fish(good amount)
  5. Get Dried shrimps (in place of herring)
  6. Make ready Ghanaian use dried herrings fish
  7. Get Maggi
  8. Make ready Salt
  9. Prepare Garlic
  10. Take Ginger
  11. Make ready Fennel or cumin or rosemary(optional)
  12. Get Tomatoe paste(this makes it a bit thick and reduces the hotness
  13. Make ready Fry on low or medium heat to avoid burning
  14. Make ready You have to stir alot if not it will burn

It is a popular part of the Ghanaian cuisine made from fish and blended spices. This recipe originated from the Ga, tribe of Ghana. Different communities use different bands of spices and different fish. Shito is a spicy Ghanaian condiment made with hot chile peppers.

Instructions to make Shito(ghana black pepper):
  1. Soak your dried haisa pepper for 30mons so it can be soft once it is soft add onions and blend,it should be too smooth.set aside,pound you garlic and ginger paste(if you like add the fennel or cumin or rosemary spice thisis optional)and set aside.Slice or grate another set od onions into a frying pan..
  2. Place the fry pan which has groundnut oil add the grated or chopped onions let your onions be much fry the onions very well till it starts changing colour add the garlic and ginger paste keep frying for like 4 mins add the tomatoe paste (the tomatoe paste should be one because it reduces the hotness).keep frying till it gets very fried,add your grounded crayfish and dried grounded shrimps.fry on low or medium heat.keep frying till it gets the darker colour
  3. You can eat it with beans,rice,yam,it can serve as a chillie dip.its very versatile.my mother is a Ghanaian so I grew up with this.you eat it with waakye or waashe
  4. You eat this with waakye or waashe

The name of the condiment refers to the word for pepper in the Ga language. There are two main versions of shito - one is made with onions, tomatoes, and fresh peppers, while the other one is made with oil, dried peppers, and dried. Shito is the word for pepper in Ga, a Ghanaian language from Accra, the Ghanaian capital. While the word for pepper is different for each of the Ghanaian native languages, shitor din (black pepper), commonly called 'shito', is widely used as the name for the hot black pepper sauce ubiquitous in. Here's my recipe for shito, Ghana's black pepper sauce.

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