Name: Mushroom Stew (Mmire Abom)
Yield: Makes 4 servings
Cuisine: Ghanaian
Ingredients: ½ pound meat, any type (e.g., beef such as chuck or top round), chopped or sliced into small pieces; Other seasonings to taste (e.g., fresh minced chili pepper, grated fresh ginger, minced fresh garlic, additional seasoned salt, etc.); ¼ cup vegetable oil; 1 onion, chopped or sliced; 4 medium tomatoes, chopped, sliced, or pureed; ¼ teaspoon dried ground red pepper; ¼ teaspoon salt or seasoned salt; 4 ounces mushrooms, any type (I commonly use white button, portabella, or baby bella); 1 heaping tablespoon all-purpose flour

Preparation info

Makes
4
servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Ghana Cookbook

By Fran Osseo-Asare and Barbara Baëta

Published 2015

About

Mushrooms are only available seasonally in Ghana, and are picked in the wild and usually added to soups or stews to enhance the flavor. They have not been cultivated commercially, and people in the rural areas who pick them generally keep a little for themselves, but sell most of them along the roadsides or to wholesalers and use the cash they receive to buy meat or fish. There are a number of varieties growing wild in Ghana, often near termite mounds. In recent times, mushrooms have become