West African Peanut Sauce with Udon Noodles – How To


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Chef JJ Johnson of Fieldtrip in New York City is on a mission to expand the definition of the world’s “mother sauces” to include the West African peanut sauce.

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  1. Barbara Pugh
    Barbara Pugh says:

    Made this with my 16 year old Autistic son 🤗 ( we're trying to encourage him to learn more cooking ) the chopping wasn't as good but the eating was !! Thank you from Dorset xx

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  2. ninjalemurdude
    ninjalemurdude says:

    The point of mother sauces is that they each teach a technique that you base other sauces on. Unfortunately, this sauce doesn't teach anything not already covered in the French mother sauces. Weirdly enough, this would be considered a variation on tomato sauce even if there wasn't tomatoes. If it's a sauce thickened and largely flavored by fruits and/or vegetables (or anything that's not meat, egg, dairy, or grain), it's considered a variation on tomato sauce. I wouldn't take it personal, the mother sauces are pretty lame on their own and really need variations like this.

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  3. Erika Pauley
    Erika Pauley says:

    As someone who’s lived in Benin, West Africa for the past year+ I can tell you I’ve never even seen celery in the country… carrots are rare and definitely don’t get ground up into a sauce like that. And there is no way a maman here is adding the seeds of a tomato to her sauce. I appreciate his passion for educating on West african cuisine but he’s either misinformed or he’s generalizing a bit too much. (Yes I realize it’s a fusion food anyways)

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  4. Ajisen Ramen
    Ajisen Ramen says:

    It actually seems to have a similar flavour profile as Wuhan hot dry noodles which has a mixture of peanut and sesame ( tahini) dressing along with pickled vegetables and chilli.

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  5. Tyana Haskins
    Tyana Haskins says:

    Wow these comments are so ugly. People are just so disrespectful to Africa culture and African people for literally no reason, it’s truly pathetic. Instead of learning and being grateful for the lessons in our culture and history, y’all mock us, try to discredit us, and say rude shit. And for what? Seriously. We didn’t do shit but try and live our lives in peace.

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  6. ERIKA DOWDY
    ERIKA DOWDY says:

    BRAVO for having this man on here!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💯🍷🍷🍷Smart Man🤗
    Learning all kinds of things from him
    And i watch ALOT of food videos🌹

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  7. TJ
    TJ says:

    Every other ingredient was salt lmao. Hmm little veggie and salt. Little salt with my salt and let's add another pinch of salt. Top if off with some more salt!

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  8. Matt Lawson
    Matt Lawson says:

    My wife and I run a Cafe in Japan with lots of international dishes and this recipe fits in so well. With one exception, Japanese people as a whole hate cilantro, so we will use "shiso" and see how it goes. Thank you!!!

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