Quick Fried Pepper sauce or Yebesse Fionfion or Shito or Piment noir
Togolese call this sauce yebesse fionfion (fried hot pepper)! The name shito for the sauce is derived from the Ga language in Ghana, where hot pepper is called Shito.
Shito sauce is mainly made with dried fish, some crustaceans, lot of vegetable oil, ginger tomatoes, garlic, peppers and other minor spices depending on the cook! Furthermore, these ingredients mixture varies from regions to families but the original recipe is from the Ga tribe in Ghana. All cited ingredients are often blended together and cooked in vegetable to create this amazing sauce!
It takes time to cook because ingredients are fresh and wet. Therefore cooking the sauce thoroughly until most water evaporate is time consuming.
Shito sauce is used in multiple in variety of meals. We an have shito sauce with Khom, kenkeh, banku, rice, rice and beans/waakye. Eating shito sauce with bread is a college staple food in Africa! Shito is like African ketchup, it goes with almost every friend tuber.
Cooking shito is time consuming and the fish aroma can last in your kitchen. Of course, the key on making rapid shito is dried ingredients! You can find most ingredients I used here. Accordingly, you can make this to your own taste and control the hot pepper heat.
Ingredients
Instructions
(The Shito sauce or Yebesse fionfion when cook really good can last for years in an airtight container. If you use coconut oil like myself, it will harden when left in a fridge. Be careful when reheating it for use as you do not want to burn the sauce).
The Shito sauce or Yebesse fionfion when cook really good can last for years in an airtight container. If you use coconut oil like myself, it will harden when left in a fridge. Be careful when reheating it for use as you do not want to burn the sauce.
Great recipe. I have tried it and it was so good. Thanks sister.
I am so glad you tried it. Thanks for the support.
There is dried pepper and onions oil they used to eat wakye instead of shito sauce. I don’t know the name
Yes. We just call it pepper. It is dried red pepper grounded with salt. The you cook onion in hot oil until the onion is brown. Then you pour a bit of pepper mixture on your wakeye and top it with some oil.