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🇧🇫Burkina Faso

Baobab Leaf Sauce

Sauce feuilles de baobab

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.

🇧🇫Burkina Faso

Sauce Bengedo

A cowpea-leaf sauce from Burkina Faso, cooked down with aromatics and eaten with tô.

🇧🇫Burkina Faso

Sauce Boulvaka

A jute leaf (Corchorus tridens) sauce with tomatoes, onions, and soumbala; the jute leaves give it a mucilaginous texture; a traditional Burkinabè leaf sauce.

🇲🇱Mali

Sauce d'Arachide

A Malian peanut sauce served over tô or rice; listed in Wikipedia's Malian cuisine; meat simmered in a rich peanut sauce with tomatoes, onions, and spices; similar to tigadeguena but may vary in preparation; a foundational sauce of Malian cuisine; the peanut is the defining ingredient; a hearty, nutty, and satisfying dish.

🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire

Sauce Gombo

Fresh okra grated to a slippery green sauce with smoked fish, pepper and sometimes soumbara, eaten by drawing threads of it up with a ball of foutou.

🇲🇱Mali

Sauce Gombo

A sticky, viscous okra sauce served over tô or rice; the okra is pounded to release its mucilage, creating the characteristic slippery texture; a beloved Malian sauce also called 'sauce noire' (black sauce); one of the most common sauces in Malian cuisine; eaten with meat or fish; the texture is the tell of a good version.

🇹🇩Chad

Sauce Gombo

Chadian okra sauce; fresh or dried okra finely chopped and cooked with beef, onions, garlic, and kanwa (natron); the okra releases its mucilage to create a viscous, clinging sauce; prized for its texture; served with boule or kissar; one of the ten most essential Chadian sauces.

🇧🇫Burkina Faso

Sauce Kirikiri

A Burkinabè leaf sauce prepared from cassia tora greens with onion, seasoning and sometimes meat or fish.

🇧🇫Burkina Faso

Sauce Oseille

A sorrel or hibiscus leaf sauce with meat, dried fish, soumbala, and peanut powder; the leaves give it a tangy, slightly sour flavour; a traditional Burkinabè sauce served with tô.

🇧🇫Burkina Faso

Sauce Vouaga

A seasonal Burkinabè sauce made from kapok calyx and aromatics, served with tô.