DISH RESEARCH · Sauce
Ngunja
Also known as: Ngunza
Pounded cassava leaves with aromatics and peanut butter, with optional beef.
About Ngunja
The Peace Corps C.A.R. cookbook records ngunja as a cassava-leaf preparation with garlic, onions, piment and peanut butter. Its full leaf-based recipe is separate from the book’s later shortcut using market-bought ngunja sticks.
Pounding combines the leaves with the aromatics before further cooking. Peanut butter makes the finishing sauce, while chunks of beef remain optional; palm oil is selected from the source’s offered cooking oils.
The cooked greens and sauce are served over rice in this rendition. The alternative accompaniment is gozo, identified by the source as pounded cassava tuber, rather than an extra ingredient in the selected rice serving.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Peanut.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Ngunja
Peace Corps C.A.R. cookbook ngunja, palm-oil and rice option.
- Cassava leavesBase
- GarlicAromatic
- OnionsAromatic
- Piment peppersSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- BeefProtein · Optional
- Palm oilCooking medium
- Brown peanut butterSauce
- WaterFood-contact medium
- Prepared riceAccompaniment
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Cassava leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual manioc leaves19; full named original leaf recipe rather than prepared sticks.
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Onions: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Piment peppers: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual22 piment peppers; precise species/heat/form unprovided.
- Beef (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit optional23 retained despite method browning27.
- Palm oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual palm-oil method27 branch selected over peanut oil; general oil24 retained through selected named branch.
- Brown peanut butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Peanut source-confirmed. Actual brown peanut butter27 and list25 confirms Peanut; complete product formula unspecified.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit cold leaf washing26 and optional cool hand-dipping26 water retained as consolidated contact allocation; no extra stew water from separate fast-food recipe29.
- Prepared rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual service27 selected over gozo; full separate rice recipe/seasoning unprovided.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Central African Republic
- Central African RepublicCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Central African Cuisine
- Central African Republic CuisineCatalogue link pending review