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Daqua peanut dressing
Daqua style peanut dressing · Peanut dressing for Sudanese tomato salad
A smooth dressing of peanut butter, oil and lime, tossed into a Sudanese-style tomato salad and served at once.
What the dressing is
Daqua is a peanut and citrus dressing for raw tomato salad. The dressing is the peanut-butter element, separate from the vegetables it coats. In the recipe read, it is a thin, glossy emulsion of peanut butter and oil, sharpened with lime juice and salt.
The dressing is made in a bowl with a whisk. Whisking the oil into the peanut butter first gives a smooth base, and the lime and salt go in afterwards. It is tossed through the tomatoes rather than poured on top.
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How it is eaten
The source serves the dressed tomatoes immediately. The author notes that peanut butter softens the sharpness of raw tomato, which made the salad appealing to a diner who does not usually like tomatoes.
The source also notes that peanuts appear in many Sudanese dishes, and this salad is one example of that use.
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Open questions
The quantities here come from one home cook. Sudanese versions with more chilli and different oils exist in other sources, and the sources read do not establish which is the traditional form. A Sudanese cookbook or a Sudanese cook's account is the next source to find.
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History
The one source read is a home-cooking blog that gives the dressing as a Sudanese-style salad dressing. It records no date or origin. Search results describe the tomato salad as widely made in Sudan and relate the name to peanut paste, but the source read does not confirm the link.
Ingredients
Scaling: source batch only
Smooth peanut butterPut in a small bowl.
59 mL¼ cup as recorded
OilWhisk into the peanut butter until smooth.
79 mL0.33 cup as recorded
LimeJuice.
2
Salt
To taste.
Method
- Put the peanut butter in a small bowl and whisk in the oil until smooth.
- Mix in the lime juice and salt.
- Toss the dressing gently with the tomato mixture made from five large tomatoes, four green onions, one small green chilli and a quarter cup of chopped parsley.
- Serve immediately.
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Sudan
Documented preparation · Country evidenceThe source names the salad as Sudanese and describes peanuts in many Sudanese dishes; it gives no regional precision.
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Sources
Tara's Multicultural TableMethod · Inspiration
Salata Tomatim Bel Daqua (South Sudanese Tomato Salad)Peanut butter, oil, lime juice and salt dressing with quantities
Whisk oil into peanut butter, then add lime and salt
Toss with tomato, green onion, chilli and parsley; serve immediately
Cited in: What the dressing is; How it is eaten; Open questions