Name: Sesame Soup with Poultry
Yield: Makes 4 to 5 servings
Cuisine: Ghanaian
Ingredients: 1 to 3 chili peppers, or to taste (jalapeno for milder, cayenne for hotter, and habanero for very hot), seeded and stems and membranes removed to decrease heat, if desired; 1½ teaspoons salt or seasoned salt (or to taste); 6 small-to-medium peeled tomatoes or half a 28-ounce can tomatoes; 1 cup tahini; 4 pounds guinea fowl, Cornish game hens, chicken, or pheasant; 2-inch piece fresh ginger, coarsely chopped; 1 cup coarsely chopped onion (red if available); 3 or 4 cloves garlic

Preparation info

Makes
4 to 5
servings

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Ghana Cookbook

By Fran Osseo-Asare and Barbara Baëta

Published 2015

About

Sesame soup is popular in Northern Ghana. While in Tamale shadowing Mrs. Comfort Awu Akor, we went to the local outdoor market for ingredients to make ours, including guinea fowl and sesame seeds. Comfort wanted two specific types of seeds, but we had to settle for what was available. Preparations were quite labor intensive. Our Muslim driver Abdul did the honors of slaughtering the guinea fowl—cutting its head off after saying a prayer. We boiled water to clean the fowl and remove its feat