How To Make Onion Sauce African | Peppers And Onions Sauce

Are you looking for something quick and delicious to make, then you should try this onion sauce.

Welcome back to my kitchen. This onions sauce should make it to your menu and today I’m going to show you how to make onion sauce the African way.

Slightly spicy and delicious, perfect for eating rice, pasta, potato and yam.

Just like tomato sauce, you will love this simple and easy recipe so let’s get started with the ingredients list.

Red onions sauce ingredients

Onions – 15 medium size
Bleached palm oil – 1/4 cup
Palm oil – 1/4 cup
Egg – 4 -5
Fish – 2 Mackerel fish
Bell pepper – 1 large one
Sweet red pepper – 1 large one
Garlic – 5 pcs
Ginger
Dry thyme – 1 tbsp
Curry powder – 1 tbsp
Stock cubes – 2 small cubes
Salt to taste – 1/2 tbsp

Now, It’s time to list the step-by-step cooking process for making this amazing sauce.

How to make onions sauce

Below is the preparation process of making homemade onions sauce in your kitchen.

Boil eggs till they are hard boiled then peel the eggs to remove the shells.
Thoroughly clean mackerel fish with the steps here.
Boil the fish or fry it nicely – I have a fried fish recipe for you
First peel off the skin of all the onions
Slice 2-3 onions – this step is optional
Blend the remaining onions with some water to make onions paste.
Clean bell pepper, sweet long pepper, ginger and garlic
Make pepper mix by blending everything to a rough texture.
Heat up bleached palm oil and red palm oil together in a pot.
Fry sliced onions in the hot oil for 2-3 minutes – skip this step if you don’t like to see onions in your food.
Scoop the fried onions out of the hot oil
Add pepper mix
To improve taste, season with dry thyme, salt, stock cubes and curry.
Mix well to combine and allow to fry for 10 mins on medium heat
After 10 mins of frying, the sauce would look drier as there has been a significant reduction of the liquid content in the pepper mix.
Pour the onion paste into the sauce
Add boiled eggs and fried fish
Cover and cook for 20 mins on medium heat
Stir well to ensure the sauce doesn’t burn or get stuck to the bottom of the pot.
Stir the fried onions into the sauce and allow to fry 5 minutes

Delicious peppers and onions sauce is ready

Kindly note that you can use and protein of choice for this sauce.

It is also delicious with any type of fish, chicken, beef, turkey, ponmo.

As stated earlier, this is a simple and straightforward dish with delicious outcome.

As a matter of fact, many people call it sweet onions sauce because it is so sweet.

I hope you will try this sweet recipe and don’t forget to drop your thoughts about it.

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