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Cow Foot Tomato Soup ou Sauce de Pied de Veau or Egnifoti Dessi

This Cow Foot Tomato Soup or Sauce de Pied de Veau or egnifoti dessi is so easy to make! Growing we always have 2 meat tomato soup for easy weeknight meals. All we needed after school was to cook a side dish and diner is ready! Side dish varies from rice, couscous, ablo, akpan, akume, foufou, gari. It makes cooking from scratch a bliss. Of course this egnifoti dessi as it call in Ewe/Mina language of Togo/Ghana and Benin is a popular street soup. It is sold at restaurants and bars throughout Togolese territories.

There are multiple ways to cook it. It varies from everyone’s taste or the mood of the day. Yet it could mainly be based on what you have available in the house. Usually you do not cook the cow feet as is, you will add some beef meat to it. My mom love adding beef tripe also to it, but during this quarantine, i had no intention of going out for extra meat. I went for plain cow feet! It is full of gelatin! I was fortunate to stumble on this at our local cubfoods.

Since not everyone in my household love spicy food, I use whole hot pepper so ones can pop it in his own plate for need heat. The sliced vegetables added at the end of cooking boost the flavor of the sauce. While, the black pepper I used is from Africa and has a stronger flavor than the common one in the America, you can sure use the standard american black pepper. We call this African black pepper Atikanli in Ewe language.

Do not forget that I carefully select ingredients for my cooking due to my personal food sensitivity issues.

Savourous spices are available here!

The recipe video is available here.

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55 mins

Ingredients

For the Cow foot cooking

5 pounds of clean cow foot

4 tablespoons of ginger powder

4 tablespoons of onion powder

2 tablespoons of garlic powder

4 tablespoons of mix peppercorn

4 laurel leaves

1 teaspoon of clove

2 tablespoons of Bouillon seasoning

Water (about 4 cups or just enough to cover the meat during cooking)

Salt to taste

For the Tomato Base

1 can of tomato paste

¼ cup of oil

½ teaspoon of baking soda (Akam) (to optionally reduce tomato acidity)

2 cups of fresh tomato puree

1 tablespoon of onion powder

1 tablespoon of garlic powder

1 tablespoon of ginger powder

½ teaspoon of anise powder

Pinch of bouillon seasoning

1 medium onion sliced

1 bell pepper sliced

1 large tomato sliced

Fresh hot pepper (to taste)

Pinch of black pepper (atikanli)

Instructions

In your pressure cooker, add the cleaned cow foot pieces

Add all seasonings then water.

Cook on meat stew settings

While the meat is cooking, start prepping vegetables for the soup

In a large sauce pan, on medium heat

Add oil and a couple of slices of onion

Add the tomato paste and keep on stirring to avoid burning the paste

Add you baking soda. This step is optional if your tomato is sweet otherwise the baking soda helps reduce the tomato acidity.

Add the puree fresh tomato, cover and let is cook for 5 minutes.

Add your ginger, onion, garlic, anise powder.

Cook it for 2 mins, the bring the precooked meat.

Slowly add the cooked meat with the meat stock. The pepper corn will stay at the bottom of the pan, you can toss them.

cow foot soup, soupe de pied de veau, egnifoti dessi

Stir well and let the mixture boil for 2 minutes

Add fresh veggie slices(onion, belle pepper, tomato) and hot peppers

Cook for 2 minutes.

Taste the soup to check if needed extra seasoning/ salt. Add extra seasoning (salt/bouillon) to taste.

Cook for 1 more minute

Add black pepper and remove fro stove.

Serve with rice, foufou, gari, couscou, ablo or as is.

- Marta
- June 10, 2020
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I would LOVE to try it. Surprisingly enough, many people in the US don’t like certain parts of the cow and pig. I like them, personally.
1. - Renia
  - June 10, 2020
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  Wow. What a unique recipe!!
- Andrea
- June 10, 2020
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Love the variety of spices. Very flavorful.
- Marion
- June 10, 2020
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This looks so cozy and comforting. I love soups with a lot of collagen from the bones. They’re so unctuous.
- Chenée
- June 11, 2020
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This looks like an incredibly flavorful soup!
- Mila
- June 12, 2020
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My mom would LOVE this. I have to save your recipe for later. It looks amazing!
- Stefani Renee
- June 13, 2020
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Such an interesting layer of flavors and seems simple to make. I have to give it a try.
- Katrina Adams
- June 14, 2020
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This recipe will definitely take me out of my comfort zone with cooking.
- Jazz
- June 15, 2020
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This soup turns out so flavorful!
- Tamara
- June 16, 2020
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This is such a nostalgic soup. It turned out so amazing and robust. Perfect for a nice toasty piece of bread.
- Immaculate Ruému
- June 17, 2020
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This soup is so rich and hearty!
- Kaluhi
- June 17, 2020
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This looks really amazing! Your blog is so beautiful too!

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