Liberia

🇱🇷Liberia

Liberian Shortbread

Shortbread

A crumbly Liberian tea biscuit with a buttery texture and gentle sweetness.

🇱🇷Liberia

Liberian Sour Bread

Sour Bread

A lightly fermented Liberian loaf with a tangy crumb, part of the country's home-baking tradition and eaten at breakfast or with tea.

🇱🇷Liberia

Liberian Sugarcane Liquor

Gana Gana

A strong homemade Liberian liquor made by fermenting sugarcane juice, sometimes infused with bark or spices and poured from reused bottles.

🇨🇲Cameroon

Nigerian Jollof Rice

Jollof rice

Long-grain rice cooked down in a blended base of red pepper, tomato, onion and scotch bonnet until the grain absorbs it all and the bottom of the pot catches.

🇱🇷Liberia

Palava Sauce

A Liberian leafy stew of greens, onion, pepper and meat or fish, related to plasas traditions.

🇬🇲Guinée Forestière (Nzérékoré / Forest), The Gambia

Palm Wine

Emu

Sap tapped from a palm tree and fermenting from the moment it is collected — milky, sweet in the morning, sour and stronger by evening.

🇱🇷Liberia

Pepper Soup

Thin, fiery broth of goat, catfish or chicken spiced with uda, uziza seed and calabash nutmeg, drunk as much as eaten.

🇱🇷Liberia

Rice Bread

Liberian Rice Bread

A sweet, dense Krio bread made from rice flour, sugar, over-ripe bananas, and groundnut oil; traditionally baked for parties, weddings, and celebrations, especially in Freetown.

🇱🇷Liberia

Roasted Corn and Coconut

A simple Liberian market snack pairing smoky roasted corn with fresh coconut.

🇸🇱Sierra Leone

Roasted Plantain

Bọ̀lì

Firm plantain roasted whole over open coals until blackened outside, split and eaten with roasted groundnuts or pepper sauce.

🇱🇷Liberia

Torborgee

A bitter, spicy stew of torborgee beans cooked with palm oil and enriched with dried meat, chicken, pork, or fish, usually eaten with rice.