Ground Nut Chop

http://www.congocookbook.com/rare_recipes/florence_arfmann.html

Ingredients:

• Chicken
• Tomatoes
• Onions
• Bone Stock
• Ground nuts (peanuts)
• Okoro (garden egg)
• Eggs [hard-boiled]
• Rice [boiled]

Directions:

Fry the dismembered chicken with tomatoes and onions. Then put in a saucepan with stock and leave. Grind up ground nuts to a fine texture, mix into a paste with a little water and add to the chicken. Heat it all up and let it thicken. Add 2 or 3 okoro, and two or three hard-boiled egg (1 per head). The stew is served in soup plates over a foundation of rice, according to one's appetite. The side dishes then put in an appearance and are put on the table in small plates or saucers:

• Sliced raw pineapple
• Roasted ground nuts (whole and powdered)
• Sliced orange
• Fried onions
• Raw sliced onions
• Sliced tomato
• Slice fresh bananas, sliced fried bananas
• Paw Paw (native melon)
• Grated coconut (raw and baked)
• Grated ginger
• Ground dry red and green peppers

Mix all this conglomeration together, not forgetting salt, and eat it.