Rwanda: Do You Know the Value of Groundnuts?

23 February 2015

Roasted or not, peanut butter is not the only product you can get from crushed nuts. Using simple equipments, ground the nuts further and the result is peanut oil that can be drawn by decanting. Alternatively, you can mix the resultant paste with an emulsifier to make delicious peanut sauce for accompanying your meal. Whether the sauce can or cannot be served as an appetizer, there seems to be an endless list of product derivatives for this food that is neither considered a fruit nor vegetable.

After being introduced in West Africa by Portuguese merchants sailing from Brazil around the sixteenth century, groundnuts have become one of Africa's major food sources.

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