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Eggplant Salad with Peanut Butter

by Noela Mogga | May 30, 2016 | Recipes, Vegetarian

Eggplant salad with peanut butter, Salata Aswad. Eggplant salad with peanut butter, called Salata Aswad in Arabic, is the most common way South Sudanese enjoy their eggplants. This is a beloved must have side dish to any feast. Eggplants are sliced and fried...

South Sudan Cuisine

South Sudan Cuisine is heavily influenced by East African and Arab cuisine. At the basic level meals are meat or fish stews with a vegetarian side dish eaten with Asida, a thick porridge made from sorghum or millet. Unique to South Sudan cuisine is the use of peanut butter to thicken sauces. South Sudanese cuisine is generally complex and labor and time consuming. Women spend the better part of the day cooking the day's meals. Sweet hot tea is consumed at any time of the day, for breakfast, after a meal in the afternoon, offered to guests and at every occasion.

Eggplant Salad with Peanut Butter

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