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🇬🇲The Gambia

Fish Ball Stew

Chu Dewtirr

Seasoned fish balls simmered in a tomato and onion sauce with vegetables, a Gambian alternative to whole-fish stews and a companion to rice.

🇬🇲The Gambia

Gambian Catfish Stew

Chewi Kong

Catfish simmered with onion, garlic, tomato, carrot, cassava, cabbage, bay leaf, and pepper, served over boiled rice.

🇬🇲The Gambia

Gambian Oyster Stew

Oyster Stew

Oysters from the Gambia's creeks simmered with onion, pepper, palm oil, and other seafood into a quick, briny stew.

🇬🇲The Gambia

Groundnut Stew

Domoda

A thick groundnut stew made with peanut paste, tomato, onion, chilli, and meat or fish, usually with sweet potato, pumpkin, cassava, or carrot over rice.

🇬🇲The Gambia

Maafe

Sauce d'arachide

Beef, lamb or chicken stewed in a groundnut paste and tomato sauce with cassava, carrot and sweet potato, served over rice.

🇬🇲The Gambia

Palasas Leafy Stew

Palasas

Leafy greens cooked down with palm oil, onion, chilli, and smoked fish or meat into a dark sauce served with rice.

🇬🇲The Gambia

Soso Beans

Black-eyed beans simmered with tomato, onion, chilli, and aromatics into a simple Gambian bean dish served with rice or bread.

🇬🇲The Gambia

Superkanja

Supa Kanja

A viscous okra stew with beef, smoked catfish, onion, chilli, and red palm oil, sometimes enriched with crab or prawns and served over rice.