🇨🇩 Congolese (DRC) Cuisine

Mushroom Moambe

Mushrooms in Palm Butter Sauce

Prep Time 20 min

Servings 4

Difficulty Medium

Calories 340 kcal

Wild forest mushrooms simmered in a rich, velvety palm butter sauce with tomatoes and onions, offering a vegetarian take on the DRC's iconic moambe preparation.

Ingredients

500g mixed mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
1 cup palm butter concentrate
2 large onions, chopped
3 tomatoes, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 scotch bonnet pepper
1 tsp salt
2 cups water
2 tbsp vegetable oil

Instructions

1 Heat oil in a pot and saute onions and garlic until golden.
2 Add chopped tomatoes and cook until they form a thick sauce.
3 Dissolve palm butter in warm water and add to the pot, stirring well.
4 Add sliced mushrooms and scotch bonnet pepper.
5 Simmer for 25-30 minutes until mushrooms are tender and sauce is thick.
6 Season with salt and serve over rice or with fufu.

Did You Know?

The equatorial forests of the DRC produce an extraordinary variety of wild mushrooms, and foraging for them is a skill passed from generation to generation.