Liberian Kittely Torborgee

peanut butter

🥗Healthier: almond butter

💰Cheaper: sunflower seed butter

Almond butter provides healthy fats with fewer calories.

chicken

🥗Healthier: tofu

💰Cheaper: canned beans

Tofu offers a plant-based protein alternative.

shrimp

🥗Healthier: chicken breast

💰Cheaper: canned tuna

Canned tuna is more affordable and still protein-rich.

vegetable oil

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: canola oil

Olive oil is healthier with beneficial fats.

On high heat, add frozen kittley, habanero peppers and water to pot and boil until tender for 20 mins.

Using a separate pot, add all meat ingredients, onions, salt, black pepper and water to parboil for 30 mins. Set meat aside and keep broth for torborgee.

Using a large pan and steamer, remove boiled kittley from pot, remove water, add kittley to pan and unplug the stems. In a large pan, add kittley and mash to create a paste and set aside.

On medium heat, add broth, mashed kittley, onions, chicken flavour bouillon or maggi cubes and any special seasonings of your choice to a pot. Add additional 2 cups of water if broth is limited.

Bring to a boil for 40 mins or less until the broth simmers with less liquid in the pot. Stir frequently to prevent burning at the bottom of the pot. Add any additional seasonings needed for taste.

Add meat ingredients, torborgee oil and stir for 2 mins evenly. Using a spoon, mix bicarbonate of soda and water, add to make kittley torborgee.

When the soda is added, it makes the soup to foam a lot. In this way, the real torborgee is cooked.

Turn heat off, serve kittley torborgee warm with white rice!

Cooking Techniques

Equipment Needed

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