The Congo Cookbook

a collection of African recipes from all over Africa

Tag: prawns or shrimp (dried prawns or dried shrimp)

 
Red-Red

Red-Red, a popular dish in Ghana made from cowpeas (black-eyed peas), might be named for the combination of red pepper and red palm oil. The […]

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Sauce aux Crevettes

Dried shrimp or prawns are used to add flavor to many stews and soups in Western Africa and the western part of Central Africa. Sauce aux […]

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Shitor Din

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 […]

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Calalu

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 […]

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Egusi Soup

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, […]

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Groundnut Stew

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 […]

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Mbanga (Palm Nut) Soup

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 […]

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Ndolé (Bitterleaf) Soup

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 […]

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Ogbono Soup

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 […]

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