This is another recipe for an African greens “sauce”, flavored with fish and dried shrimp. This is called Sauce aux Feuilles de Patates Douces in French-speaking Western […]
Shitor Din (or Sheto, Shito, Shito, Shitto; pronounced SHEE-toe) — from the word for pepper in the Ga language — is a spicy hot chile pepper condiment that, like ketchup in the United States […]
At first glance, Calalu seems like Gumbo: an African-style recipe with an African name, but found only in the Americas. The main difference is that Calalu always includes greens, while […]
Various Egusi soups are favorites in Western Africa. The soup is thickened with flour ground from seeds of a species of Cucurbitaceae (which includes gourds, melons, pumpkins, and squashes, […]
Groundnut is the common African word for peanut, and Groundnut Stew or Groundnut Chop is one of many Chop dishes; the Western African version of the Chicken in Peanut-Tomato Sauce eaten all over sub-Saharan […]
Made from the fruit of the African oil palm, Mbanga soup is Cameroon’s version of West Africa’s palm nut (or palm butter) soup. In Africa, use fresh […]
Ndolé (or N’Dolé, or Ndole) is a hearty soup from Cameroon. It is made from a variety of ingredients that, for the non-African, might seem to be an […]
This recipe, which is popular in Nigeria and its neighbors, uses ogbono (sometimes spelled agbono, and also called apon) as the soup thickener. Ogbono is the kernels (whole or […]