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

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, shito(ghana black pepper). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Shito(ghana black pepper) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Shito(ghana black pepper) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

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.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook shito(ghana black pepper) using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Shito(ghana black pepper):
  1. Make ready ATA GBEGBI(HAUSA DRIED PEPPER)(buy derica of dried pepper)
  2. Get 5 bulbs of onions
  3. Prepare Ground nut oil(much oil is needed)
  4. Get Cray fish(good amount)
  5. Take Dried shrimps (in place of herring)
  6. Prepare Ghanaian use dried herrings fish
  7. Get Maggi
  8. Take Salt
  9. Take Garlic
  10. Take Ginger
  11. Get 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. Get 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.

Steps 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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