Benin
4 topics — topics in this category.
Amiwo
The red corn dough of Benin: amiwo — maize flour cooked in a tomato-oil sauce until it turns rust-red — served with chicken or fish sauce and fried cheese (wagashi). Ingredients: maize flour, tomatoes, onions, palm or gr…
Akassa
The white ogi of Benin: akassa — fermented maize dough steamed in leaves into soft white cakes, eaten with every sauce from tomato-fish to gboma. Ingredients: fermented maize paste, water, leaves for wrapping (or moulds)…
Watché
Benin's rice and beans: watché (atchéké's northern cousin in name to Ghana's waakye) — rice and beans cooked together with potash-tinted water, served with tomato sauce, spaghetti and wagashi. Ingredients: rice, beans, m…
Sauce Arachide (Benin)
The peanut-chile dip of the north: a fiery peanut and tomato sauce served with grilled meat and igname pilé (pounded yam) — northern Benin's table. Ingredients: ground peanuts, tomatoes, onions, chiles (many), dried fish…
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