
Sierra Leone
Footi
A thick vegetable sauce with eggplant, okra, kidney beans, tomatoes, and bouillon cube; served over rice; a hearty Guinean everyday dish.
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Sierra Leone
A thick vegetable sauce with eggplant, okra, kidney beans, tomatoes, and bouillon cube; served over rice; a hearty Guinean everyday dish.

Guinea
Sauce feuilles
Finely crushed cassava leaves simmered with meat (beef or smoked fish), palm oil, onions, and pepper; also called saka-saka or hakô bantara; a staple sauce across Guinea, especially in the Forest Region.

Guinea
Guinean okra sauce thickened until glossy and served with rice or tô, often with meat or fish.

Guinea
A Guinean sweet-potato-leaf sauce cooked with aromatics and served with a staple starch.

Guinea
A Guinean sauce preparation built around okra, aromatics and meat or fish.

Mali
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
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
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.

Côte d'Ivoire
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.