The Congo Cookbook

a collection of African recipes from all over Africa

Tag: Roasting

 
Berberé

Berberé (or Berbere) is an Ethiopian spice mixture that is the flavoring foundation of Ethiopian cuisine, a basic ingredient inDabo Kolo, Doro Wat, and many other dishes. Berberé […]

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Ashanti Chicken

Can a recipe become extinct? If so, this one should be on the endangered recipe list. It is described in two historic texts (see below), […]

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Piri-Piri Chicken

Piri-Piri Chicken, Peri-Peri Chicken, Frango Piri-Piri, and Galinha à Piri-Piri are all basically the same dish: chicken, marinated in a hot chile pepper marinade, then grilled. The dish’s African […]

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Poulet Yassa

A traditional chicken dish from the Casamance region of Senegal, Poulet Yassa (Chicken Yassa), is one of the most famous African recipes and is found in Senegalese restaurants the […]

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Coupé-Coupé

Coupé-Coupé (from the French couper, meaning to cut or to slice) is Central Africa’s version of barbecue, perhaps a distant relation of the famous South Carolina and Texas barbecues. Beef, […]

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Liboké de Poisson (Fish in Banana-Leaf)

Leaf cookery (cooking foods that have been wrapped, burrito-style, in large leaves) is common throughout the world’s tropical regions. In Uganda, plantain bananas are often wrapped […]

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Mulet Farci à la Saint-Louisienne

Saint-Louis, Senegal, is famous for this dish: Mulet Farci à la Saint-Louisienne — Saint-Louis Stuffed Mullet (also called Dem à la Saint-Louisienne, Mulet Farci, Dem Farci, or Poisson Farci): Mullet stuffed with onions, […]

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Oysters Mombasa

Whether or not the Swahili and other African peoples of the Eastern African coast traditionally ate oysters does not seem to be well documented. There […]

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Poisson Yassa (Fish Yassa)

This traditional Senegalese recipe, basically a lemon-onion-mustard marinade and sauce, is used for Poulet Yassa, mutton, and fish (poisson): Poisson Yassa. It would take an ichthyologist to […]

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