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How to Make Red Palm Oil for Cooking

As we were driving we saw a roadside Palm Oil business.  We stopped and met the family who was processing the oil.  The kids walked us through each step --they were the only ones who could speak English.  

Palm nuts grow in bunches on a Oil Palm Tree

The bunches  are harvested and left to dry.

Bunches are beaten to remove the nuts from the cluster.

 

Nuts are boiled for 20 minutes.

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Video of machine pressing the nuts.

Nuts are run through the first extraction process.

This produces the crude red Palm oil rich in carotene, antioxidents, Vitamin A & E and can be found

for sale at a roadside stand in waterbottle.

The seeds that are extracted when pressed through the machine are further refined for palm oil.

Sold in stores

Bottled and sold on the roadside.

Palm Oil Stew

Quiz:  What the white things in the middle?

Ingredients 

6 Red Bell Peppers (Tatashe)

Assorted meats ( Boiled and Fried)

4-6 Boiled Eggs (Optional)

1.5 cups Palm oil

2 Big onions

2-4 Scotch bonnet (Ata rodo)

Stock fish

Dried Catfish fillets or Shawa fillets

1 Cup Dried Prawns

4 Tablespoons Crayfish Powder