Miyan Taushe (Miyan taushe)
Overview
Miyan taushe is a thick pumpkin and groundnut soup of the Hausa people of northern Nigeria. Beef or mutton is cooked with onion and seasoning to make a stock, then a blend of tomato, red pepper and scotch bonnet is fried in palm or groundnut oil and added. Pumpkin is cooked in the soup until it softens and breaks down, and groundnut paste is stirred in to make it rich and creamy. Chopped greens such as spinach or yakuwa, the sour leaves of roselle, are added at the end. It is eaten with tuwo, a soft stiff porridge made from rice, maize or millet.
History
Miya means soup in Hausa, and taushe means pumpkin. Pumpkins and groundnuts are both important crops of the dry northern savanna, and the soup is cooked in homes across Kano, Kaduna, Katsina and Sokoto. It is a special dish at celebrations such as Eid and weddings, and it is also eaten in Hausa communities in Niger, Ghana and Cameroon.
Main ingredients
Pumpkin, groundnut paste, spinach, beef, tomato, scotch bonnet. The soup is built on meat stock and is usually served hot. Diet: contains meat; usually gluten-free.
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Recipe
Method
- 130 min
Cook the meat with half the onion, salt and stock cubes in 1 l water for 30 minutes.
- 210 min
Fry the rest of the onion in the oil, add the blended tomato mix and fry for 10 minutes.
- 3
Add the fried sauce and the pumpkin to the meat and cook until the pumpkin is soft.
- 410 min
Stir in the groundnut paste and simmer for 10 minutes, stirring often.
- 53 min
Add the greens, cook for 3 minutes and serve with tuwo.
- ✓
Serve. About 1h 10m from start to bowl.
Sources
Description, history and recipe written by SoupWiki and checked against the sources above. Calories and times are rough estimates.
