Ébésséssi

Name: Ébésséssi
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Togo
Ingredients: 500 g fresh tomatoes; 160 g onion: 80 g to cook and 80 g to finish; 5 g fresh chilli; 2 g salt; 600 ml water to poach vegetables

🌶️ Crushed cooked tomato and chilli condiment finished with raw onion.

Ingredients

500 g fresh tomatoes
160 g onion: 80 g to cook and 80 g to finish
5 g fresh chilli
2 g salt
600 ml water to poach vegetables

Preparation

Wash tomatoes and chilli, peel onions. Quarter tomatoes and chop 80 g onion for cooking. Very finely slice remaining 80 g onion.

Boil 600 ml water. Add tomatoes, cooking onion and chilli. Simmer about 10 minutes until tender.

Lift vegetables with slotted spoon and drain 5 minutes over clean container. Do not pour poaching water into condiment.

Crush cooked vegetables with salt in food mortar or brief blender pulses. Keep rustic fairly thick texture rather than smooth puree.

Fold in raw sliced onion with clean tool and divide into 4 condiment portions. Serve immediately. Reference: 15 minutes preparation, 15 cooking including heating, 5 draining, total 35 minutes. No fish or oil added.