Good day, today's post is about "GizDodo" (derived from Gizzard & Dodo (fried plantain)). Its basically fried gizzard & dodo in tomato sauce. Different people have their different variations, I love colorful foods (based on Instagram levels), so I add lots of vegetables just for the look only , not that its important. Talk about different variations brings to mind the different types of meat used, the title of this post also says goatdodo because instead of using gizzard, I substituted it with goat-meat. What ever makes you sleep at night! I prepared 2 variations in this post, the 1st was using goat-meat and less tomatoes; the 2nd was using gizzard and shaki and plenty tomatoes. The good thing about gizdodo other than its easy to prepare, is that it can be served as a main dish or with a main dish or as sauce itself (done all 3 of these). Below is the recipe for goatDodo;
You would need:
Plantain - 4 fingers (I think the riper the plantain, the better)
Goat-meat - 1 kg (or whatever meat you want to use)
Tomatoes - 6 (depends on the level of sauce you want or how you want to eat it)
Onions - 1 bulb
Chili - 3
Green bell pepper - 1
Spring onions - 2 stalks
Meat stock - 1 cup
Spices of your choosing.
Steps:
You would need:
Plantain - 4 fingers (I think the riper the plantain, the better)
Goat-meat - 1 kg (or whatever meat you want to use)
Tomatoes - 6 (depends on the level of sauce you want or how you want to eat it)
Onions - 1 bulb
Chili - 3
Green bell pepper - 1
Spring onions - 2 stalks
Meat stock - 1 cup
Spices of your choosing.
Steps:
- Boil the goat-meat till its tender. Remove from stock and allow to cool (save some stock). When cool enough, dice and fry properly.
- Peel plantain, dice and fry evenly.
- In a pan, pour oil and allow to heat. While heating the oil, peel and dice onions and sweat the onions. ( Sweating onions is frying it over medium-low heat with a pinch of salt. The purpose of sweating is to draw moisture out, concentrating the flavor and enhancing conversion from starch to sugar. Heating the onions releases their aroma and reduces the chemical bitterness they exhibit when raw.)
- Blend tomatoes and pepper. (I blended 3 and diced 3 tomatoes because I didn't want to much pureed sauce.)
- Add the tomatoes to the frying pan and fry for 5 minutes or till its almost dry. When almost dry, add meat stock and allow to boil for about 5 minutes.
- Chop the chili, green bell pepper and spring onions. Add to the sauce and allow to cook for about 3-5 minutes. If the sauce is getting dry, add more stock.
- When the sauce is ready, add the goat-meat and plantain, mix thoroughly and cover to cook for about 2 minutes. The end....
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Serve that alone or with a main dish and you are good to go! had mine with jollof rice..JPG)
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The 2nd one I prepared with actual gizzard and shaki has the same procedure, but I used more tomato because I wanted to use it as a sauce to eat with white rice.`
Stay tuned & God bless!Samuel.
