Sauces

Baobab Leaf Sauce

Sauce feuilles de baobab

Burkina Faso

A thick sauce from fresh or dried baobab leaves with potash, soumbala, and meat or fish; the leaves are mucilaginous and thicken the sauce; used in 64% of tô sauces in Burkina Faso.

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What it is

A closer look at Baobab Leaf Sauce.

A thick sauce from fresh or dried baobab leaves with potash, soumbala, and meat or fish; the leaves are mucilaginous and thicken the sauce; used in 64% of tô sauces in Burkina Faso.

What to look for

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A dark green, viscous sauce with a slightly slippery texture; the baobab leaves give it body and a mild earthy flavour; the most common tô sauce in Burkina Faso.

Where it belongs

Origins and
traditions.

Food rarely respects a border. These are the places the dataset connects most strongly to Baobab Leaf Sauce.

Native to

Burkina Faso

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Traditional in

Niger

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Traditional in

Togo

Country-wide tradition

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Names around the table

One food, more than one name.

Baobab Leaf Sauceprimary
Kukalocal · 🇳🇪
Sauce feuilles de baobablocal · 🇧🇫

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