Tag Archive for: Cameroon Cuisine

Cameroon – Congo Meat

Congo meat is snail meat. Congo meat is well appreciated by the people of the North West parts of Cameroon due to the fact that it is believed to be a blood cleanser. People of Southern Cameroon are so much into the belief that they even turn up to rare snails so as to later on cook it and use in the purifcation of the blood by those who are either sick or healthy.

Cameroon – Okok

Okok is a meal or a traditional Cameroonian dish from the central region of Cameroon. It is mostly called “Yaoundé chop” because the people from this area adores this dish. Okok is eru leaves in the Yaoundé dialect, it thus takes its name from this vegetable bearing the name okok. To the Yaoundé people they believe that the beauty of okok has not been felt until it is served with a bottle of red wine.

Cameroon – Banana Cake

Banana is a fruit eating by humans and animals. This is a very old fruit that bares from a flowering plant of the Genus Musa. It had long existed. This plant bares plantains and banana. Plantains could be used for cooking while banana is eating as a fruit.

Cameroon – Mbangem Suburbs Roasted Fish With Manioc

Mbangem suburbs roasted fish is a quite a unique meal due to its freshness. The taste of this fish is very fresh, it is not cold like the case of eating fish, but this time, it is very fresh due to the fact that it has just been removed from water.

Cameroon – Pounding Pillee Potatoes

Pounding pillee potatoes is a meal that is being prepared for new babies who do not yet have the possibility of eating on their own without the help of their parents or mother. It is the first food that brings the child to the universe of food.

Cameroon – Countri Green Leaves Vegetables.

Countri green leaves vegetables is a meal prepared in Cameroon by the Nso people, who are better known as Banso. Originally, it was a meal prepared for their Fon and he was the only one who had the right to eat countri green leaves.

Cameroon – Bahana Burnt Plum With Boiled Native Cocoyams

Bahana burnt plum is a local cuisine known for the fact that it is being eaten at the sunset when the whole family is being gathered around a burning fire telling themselves stories of different kind from epic stories to comic stories with the whole family laughing cheerfully enjoying themselves. Bahana burnt plum with boiled native cocoyams is a tradition coming from the Bahana, a village locality found in the Western part of Cameroon.

Cameroon – Coconut Rice

Coconut is said to have long existed about 10000 years. Coconut rice is very delicious meal that could be cook in so many homes around Cameroon, Africa and the world at large. This is rice prepared with coconut water.

Cameroon – Cornchaff

Corn and beans are one of the most used seeds, widely grown crops and one of the most eating seeds in Africa. Beans seeds are said to be dated about 9000yrs and is said to have been found but in Thailand. Normally to prepare this particular cuisine, you will need to prep for about 30min, then using about 1:30min for cooking process to come to an end. It will be better to overcook beans than to eat half done beans.

Cameroon – Pancakes

Pancakes is a special cuisine eating by so many people. I still call it a breakfast cuisine because I eat pancakes most at times during breakfast with a cup of tea. But nevertheless, pancakes could be eating during lunch or supper.