🇧🇼 Botswanan Cuisine

Mogodu

Tripe Stew

Prep Time 3 hours
Servings 6
Difficulty Hard
Calories 376 kcal

Beef tripe slow-simmered in a richly spiced tomato and onion sauce until melt-in-your-mouth tender, served over pap or bogobe.

Ingredients

  • 1kg beef tripe, cleaned and cut into pieces
  • 2 large onions, chopped
  • 3 tomatoes, chopped
  • 2 tbsp curry powder
  • 1 tbsp turmeric
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 tbsp oil
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 4 cups water

Instructions

  1. 1 Boil tripe in salted water for 2 hours until tender (or 45 minutes in a pressure cooker).
  2. 2 Drain. Heat oil in a pot, sauté onions until golden.
  3. 3 Add garlic, curry powder, and turmeric. Stir 1 minute.
  4. 4 Add tomatoes and cook until soft, about 10 minutes.
  5. 5 Add tripe, 2 cups water, salt, and pepper. Simmer 30 minutes until sauce thickens. Serve over pap.

Did You Know?

Mogodu is the go-to hangover cure in Botswana and is sometimes called "the morning-after medicine."

From The Culinary Codex — http://theculinarycodex.com/dish/botswanan/mogodu/