Description: Tatase is a popular soup ingredient in many Nigerian cuisines. It gives soups the reddish fresh look and flavor. Tatashe – originally spelt as ‘tatase’ – is the Yoruba name for “big red pepper”, good for stews / sauce or in salads when de-seed.

In Nigeria, the green Tatashe are prized for use in ‘Designer’ stew or Ayamashe or Ofada Sauce. This is a green stew made from a range of green peppers – scotch bonnets, habaneros, tatashe, pettie belle or bell peppers cooked down with onions, fermented seeds and other seasoning. The meats – a variety of beef, offal and sometimes dried fish lend the name designer stew to this aromatic dish.