Palmnut Soup with Fufu

Ingredients

• (4 oz) water
  125 ml
• (2 lb) lean lamb shanks or chops

  or shoulder of beef cut in chunks
  1 kg
• salted pig's trotters

  jointed and cleaned
  1 unit
• salt to taste
  1 unit
• pepper to taste
  1 unit
• onions

  finely chopped
  2 large
• large

  ripe tomatoes, blanched, peeled and puréed
  3 unit
• (1½ lb) palmnut pulp
  750 g
• (8 fl oz) boiling water
  250 ml
• chilli pepper or fresh

  ground red chillies (hot peppers) to taste, (optional)
  1 unit
• mushrooms

  cleaned and peeled
  4 large
• giant crabs cooked whole in salted water and drained (remove legs but not the claws - save cooked legs to be added separately to the soup)
  2 unit
• (2 lb) fish cutlets (salted

  smoked, grilled, deep-fried or sundried)
  1 kg