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Ingredients
- 1.5 kg pork trotters, cut and well cleaned
- 1 kg potatoes
- 2 onions, sliced
- 3 tomatoes, crushed
- 4 garlic cloves
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 bay leaf, optional
- Salt, pepper, pili-pili
- Water
Method
- 01 Blanch the trotters 10 minutes in plenty of water. Drain and rinse.
- 02 Sweat onions and garlic in oil; add tomatoes 5 minutes.
- 03 Add the trotters, cover with water, bay leaf and salt. Simmer covered 1½–2 hours until tender.
- 04 Peel the potatoes, cut into large pieces. Add them 25–30 minutes before the end.
- 05 Adjust salt and chili. The sauce should coat without being watery.
- 06 Serve hot with bidia / bukari or bread.
**Makosso** (pork trotters in sauce) is a family sharing dish. In Kasai it often meets **potatoes**—a highland starch, cousin to [grilled mbala](/en/recettes/mbala-grillee/). Other pork in sauce: [ngulu ya sauce](/en/recettes/ngulu-ya-sauce/).
In the same spirit
Other recipes close by territory or by gesture.
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Ngulu in sauce
Ngulu ya sauce recipe: pork simmered in tomato-onion sauce until tender — Kinshasa table dish, distinct from charcoal-braised pork.
25 min prep · 1 h 15 cook
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Bukari
Bukari recipe: hot-worked maize flour dough until smooth and dense—the central starch of Greater Katanga (Lubumbashi).
5 min prep · 20 min cook
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Grilled mbala
Grilled mbala recipe: sweet potatoes cooked in coals or in the oven until the skin caramelises — simple Kasai tuber and beyond.
5 min prep · 40 min cook