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May 22, 2016 Nigerian Recipes

Tomato-less Buka Stew

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Tomato-less buka stew recipe? Who would have thought a time would come and this recipe would be the most sort for.

tomato-less buka stew

It is no news that tomato is now gold in Nigeria. The good news is, you don’t really need tomatoes to make yummy and delicious buka type of stew. Thanks to my friend Kamir (we call him Slim) who shared his amazing recipe with me a while ago.

The first time I made this stew was in February and it was a hit back to back at mine. Some of my followers queried on Instagram if the soup wouldn’t be too hot to consume because of the absence of tomatoes. The answer is NO, the secret to achieving this tomato-less (buka) stew is by de-seeding the peppers as much as you can (ata rodo and tatashe) before blending. Onions and palm oil are also perfect heat soothers, so you will be needing lots of it. If you think it might be too expensive to use tatashe for the stew, you can use a mixture of dried tatashe and fresh ones.

This is the way Slim makes his tomatoless stew and it’s always ‘lit’ in fact I call that stew ‘Iya sharp corner stew’. It brought back memories of an elderly lady I grew up knowing who had a small ‘mama put’ as it’s fondly called. You would cook the tomato-less buka stew the same way you cook your everyday Buka stew but if you want that extra little something, follow me till the end and you can thank me later. Lol

tomatoless buka stew

Notes: I used a mixture of palm oil and vegetable oil for this recipe as that is the way my friend would use it. You can choose to use what you have available, this would not affect the overall result of the soup adversely.

Ingredients

6-8 Large tatashe (Red bell pepper/paprika) you can use dried ones to compliment it

Scotch bonnet chillies (ata rodo/habenero pepper)

2 large onions

Salt

bouillon cube of choice (knorr/Maggi)

Thyme, optional

Any protein of choice (I used turkey)

Palm oil

Vegetable oil

Stock

How to cook tomatoless stew

Add washed turkey to a pan, add salt, chopped onions, thyme and seasoning (maggi) with little water and bring to boil till tender. Once it is done, set aside (I grilled the turkey afterwards)

buka stew recipe, nigerian buka stew recipe

Add the de-seeded pepper and onions to a blender, add water and blend till smooth

buka stew recipe

Place a pan on medium heat, add palm oil and vegetable oil and heat for about 3 minutes. Add the blended pepper and reduce the heat (cook on low heat to avoid burning) continue to cook till stew begins to thicken up and oil separating from the stew (dilute stew with water or stock if it is becoming too thick)

Add salt and seasoning, your protein of choice and continue to cook for another 10-15 minutes or till oil floats on the top of the stew (decant oil if is too much for your liking)

tomato stew recipe, tomatoless recipe

Serve the stew with your favourite vegetable soup, draw soup or rice

plate of nigerian soup
See how easy it is to make this tomato-less buka stew… I would like to see what you have been cooking with our recipes, don’t forget to tag @myactivekitchen on Instagram, Facebook or simply send me an email. See you in my next post. xxx

 

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Categories: Nigerian Recipes Tags: Buka stew recipe, how to cook nigerian stew without tomatoes, nigerian buka stew, Tatashe and ata rodo stew, tomatoless buka stew

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Comments

  1. Seun says

    June 7, 2017 at 6:24 pm

    Please can I just add fried chicken to this stew without adding any stock?

     
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    • Ajoke says

      June 8, 2017 at 9:07 pm

      Hi Seun, yes you can. kindly let me know how you get on thanks

       
      Reply
  2. Seun says

    June 7, 2017 at 2:50 pm

    Can I use the hand blender to blend the pepper in place of electric blender? And you didn’t state the number of ata rodo to use. Thanks

     
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    • Ajoke says

      June 8, 2017 at 9:09 pm

      Hi please use the ata rodo according to your preference. thanks

       
      Reply
  3. Oreos says

    December 8, 2016 at 3:52 pm

    Nice one but pls i have a question…How do I remove the seeds? I have to cut all the pepper open?

     
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    • Ajoke says

      December 8, 2016 at 6:46 pm

      Yes you would have to cut it open to remove the seed.

       
      Reply
  4. Lolade says

    November 13, 2016 at 3:12 pm

    Hi!!! What seasonings exactly do you use? Is it just maggi, thyme and salt? Any curry or ginger?

    Thanks!

     
    Reply
    • Ajoke says

      November 13, 2016 at 3:27 pm

      Seasoning in the post is referring to bullion cubes (knorr/maggi). thanks
      Please kindly let me know if I answered your question

       
      Reply
  5. Becky says

    May 26, 2016 at 6:48 am

    Lovely, dis called “say no to toma”

     
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  6. Lilian says

    May 25, 2016 at 5:48 am

    Great! I will try it out dis wkend.

     
    Reply
    • Ajoke says

      May 28, 2016 at 3:28 pm

      Thank you, kindly leave a feedback when you do

       
      Reply
  7. debby says

    May 25, 2016 at 5:19 am

    Kul

     
    Reply
  8. omolola says

    May 24, 2016 at 2:05 pm

    Nice one

     
    Reply
  9. Berakah says

    May 24, 2016 at 11:46 am

    5 stars
    Nice one. thanks

     
    Reply
  10. Berakah says

    May 24, 2016 at 11:45 am

    Nice one especially for the season

     
    Reply
  11. Juliet Yamah says

    May 24, 2016 at 11:10 am

    Nice one, i will practicalize it soon

     
    Reply
    • Ajoke says

      May 28, 2016 at 3:27 pm

      Thanks, kindly let me know how you get on

       
      Reply
  12. Kunle Akinpelu says

    May 23, 2016 at 6:32 pm

    Ingenious

     
    Reply
    • Ajoke says

      May 28, 2016 at 3:27 pm

      Thank you

       
      Reply
  13. BECKY says

    May 23, 2016 at 1:12 pm

    very nice!!! well done!!

     
    Reply
  14. BECKY says

    May 23, 2016 at 12:48 pm

    very good!!!

     
    Reply

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