Shito

Shito is a Ghanaian hot pepper sauce, made with ingredients like dried chili peppers, dried fish, ginger, and oil, and is used in various dishes, especially rice-based meals and swallows.

Ingredients

-5 litre of oil

-70 grams of fresh onion

-100 grams of tomato paste

– 40 grams of powdered pepper

– 30 grams of ginger

– 30 grams of fish powder

– 10 grams of powdered garlic

-30 grams of powdered shrimps

-30 grams of powdered herrings

– 5 tablespoonfuls of salt to taste

Preparation

-Pound or blend dry hot pepper together with fresh ginger

– Pound or blend dried shrimps and dried herrings

-Grind onion, garlic and hot pepper

-Heat oil

-Add grinded or blended onions, garlic and pepper.

– Allow it cook for a while.

– Add powered shrimps and powered dried herrings to it.

– Cover and allow to cook further until all water has evaporated

– Add pounded hot pepper, stir, cover and allow to cook

– Add fish powder and con­tinue stirring to avoid burning

– Cook until sauce is dark brown in colour

-Take off the heat and serve with rice, waakye, gari, jollof etc

By Linda Abrefi Wadie