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🇹🇬Togo

Azi Kokui

A traditional Togolese dish of boiled yam or cassava dressed with a richly spiced palm-oil sauce; starchy, filling, and deeply flavoured with smoked fish or meat.

🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire

Kedjenou

Kédjénou

Guinea fowl or chicken sealed into a clay canari with onion, tomato, aubergine and ginger and cooked over low heat with no added liquid, the pot shaken rather than stirred.

🇬🇭Ghana

Kontomire Stew

Kontomire

Cocoyam leaves boiled down and cooked with palm oil, egusi, onion, smoked fish and boiled egg.

🇹🇬Togo

Palava Sauce

A Togolese leafy stew of greens, onion, pepper and fish or meat.

🇹🇬Togo

Palm Nut Soup

Déku Déssi

A thick, red-orange palm nut soup from Togo, simmered with beef, offal, smoked fish, or crab; rich in palm oil and deeply savoury, traditionally eaten with akoumé or fufu.

🇬🇭Ghana

Red Red

Black-eyed peas stewed with palm oil, tomato, onion and chilli until deep orange, served with fried ripe plantain and gari.

🇹🇬Togo

Sauce Adémè

Adémè Déssi

A silky, mucilaginous Togolese stew made from adémè leaves (jute mallow/corète potagère) cooked with palm oil, onion, tomato, and smoked fish or meat; smooth and slightly sticky, served with akoumé.

🇹🇬Togo

Sauce Arachide

Miyan Geda

A rich, creamy Togolese peanut sauce simmered with chicken, beef, or fish, tomatoes, onion, and palm oil; one of the most common sauces and a key partner to akoumé and fufu.

🇹🇬Togo

Sauce Feuille

Gboma Déssi

A hearty Togolese leaf stew made with gboma (a local leafy green), spinach, beef, smoked fish, crab, dried shrimp, and palm oil; often called the national dish and served with akoumé or fufu.

🇹🇬Togo

Timbani

A traditional Togolese dish of smoked or dried meat and fish, rehydrated in a thick tomato and palm-oil sauce; rich, smoky, and typically eaten with akoumé.

🇹🇬Togo

Yèkè Yèkè

A traditional Togolese stew of meat or offal braised in a spicy tomato and onion sauce; slow-cooked until the sauce is thick and the meat is tender, served with akoumé or fufu.