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🇧🇯Benin

Beninese Sauce Rouge

Sauce rouge

Tomato-based sauce with fried meat or fish, onions, and palm oil; the most common sauce in Benin; served over wô, amiwo, or akassa; the everyday sauce of Beninese cuisine.

🇧🇯Benin

Dja

A Beninese tomato, onion and pepper sauce cooked down until thick and intensely savoury.

🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire

Moyo

Raw onion, tomato, chilli and stock cube crushed together with a little oil and lemon into a loose relish, spooned over grilled fish.

🇹🇬Togo

Sauce Adémè

A slimy sauce made from leafy greens (corète/spinach); a traditional Beninese sauce; the leaves give it a mucilaginous texture similar to okra; served with pâte.

🇲🇱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.

🇹🇬South (Cotonou / Porto-Novo / Fon-Yoruba), Togo

Sauce Gboman

A tomato-based sauce with local spinach and leafy greens; a southern Benin specialty; served with wô or akassa; a nutritious everyday sauce.

🇨🇮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.

🇧🇯Benin

Sauce Goussi

A sauce made from ground pumpkin seeds (egusi); thick and nutty; served with akassa, piron, or wassa-wassa; a beloved Beninese sauce; rich in protein.

🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire

Sauce Graine

Palm nuts boiled and pounded, the pulp strained and cooked down with fish, crab or beef until the bright red oil rises to the top.