Tag Archive for: African Cuisine

Cameroon – Chicken sauté With Carrots

No matter your cultural background, your religion, we must all agree that chicken is the best form of meat especially when it is well prepared. This is the feeling with Chicken sauté with carrots. Chicken sauté with carrots comes from Dem in Cameroon.

Cameroon – Cornchaff

By Verdzekov Bernard Cornchaff is a meal that is eating in Cameroon. Cornchaff is a mixture of beans and corn. This mixture of beans and corn is what gives the name cornchaff. Normally, the process of cooking cornchaff is very similar to cooking beans. Cornchaff unlike beans is also a heavy dish. The meal is […]

Burkina Faso – Sauce Gombo

Sauce gombo is simply translated as Okra sauce, “gombo” means “Okra”. Although the dish is dreamed to have Okras only, it is accompanied with some varieties of seafood including cray fish or crabs and beef as meat.

Madagascar – Fried Chicken Rice

Fried rice may be the best option for some people when choosing a rice cuisine, but have you ever tried Madagascar one? This will leave your buds hotter than ever. Madagascar since it is an island, sea food is prominent, therefore fried rice may have some other kinds from chicken ones.

Cameroon – Pepper Soup

Most at times and particularly in the western world, many value soups. Soups are used most often as appetizers and most are deliciously prepared to suit that purpose.

Cameroon – Irish Potatoes Hot Pot

Irish potatoes hot pot is a delicious hot dish as the name says. Here in Cameroon, irish potatoes is common in the north west region that is from Banso , Santa, Ndop etc. The dish can be seen on tables in big occasions like wedding ceremony, baptism, to name a few.

Cameroon – Kombassa Soup

Kombassa soup is a soup of raw plantains and chicken. Kombassa here stands for unity. So the use of kombassa in describing this meal has its great significance which means the food that unites. The way the plantains is being cooked is different from the traditional cooking style of plantains. Kombassa soup comes from Kom in the North West region of Cameroon.

Nigeria – Nkwobi

Nkwobi is a typical Nigerian Cuisine. It is an expensive dish with cow foot as its main visible components. It is often termed as food for the rich. This is because the dish is expensive and for an individual to prepare this dish at home, maybe for a party or for home consumption, that person should be rich.

Mozambique – Spaghetti Rice

Spaghetti rice is prepared to most of the urban areas, because in rural areas you may find it difficult to get one.

Cameroon – Akra and Beans/Breakfast Cuisine

In Cameroon, along the road, you could see an aged lady that has been frying Akra for a very long time. It is like a profession for most people and a sauce of income. This helps the poor and at times the rich too. Akra is very important breakfast cuisine in Cameroon, made from white beans seeds.