Tag Archive for: Cameroon Cuisine

Cameroon – Pumpkin Leaves With Grinded Meat

Pumpki leaves with grinded meat is a vegan food that has a little bit of meat in it. What is special about this food is no other than the goodness it brings to the human body as a whole and more to this, it is very simple to cook. Pumpki leaves with grinded meat comes from Ndè in Cameroon.

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 – Brown Pancakes

Brown pancakes is pancakes eaten in the morning hours of the day. This is the fastest make up of breakfast that is easy to cook and very tasty in the mouth. Brown pancakes has much influence and prevalence in the North West part of Cameroon.

Cameroon – Quesi a la BOLO

Quesi a la BOLO is a local cuisine that is made of prawns and poiro. Prawns in Portuguese means cameroes. Cameroon came from the name Cameroes linking it directly to prawns. Quesi a la BOLO is being cooked in the Littoral region of Cameroon.

Cameroon – Kwacoco Bible

Kwacoco Bible is grated cocoyam mixed with spinach, palm oil, spices, smoked fish, crayfish, wrapped in plantain leaves and steamed and is cooked by many families, reasons being that it is economical and it has an ancestral link, that is, it is being perpetuated right from our ancestors to our grandparents till present date. Kwacoco Bible is a delicacy commonly prepared in the south west region of Cameroon.

Cameroon – Red Pepper Food With Ripe Plantains

Red pepper food is a meal prepared after a particular event like the over drinking of alcohol. This practice generally takes place on Sundays at 2:00 PM after a meeting ceremony, better known as njangui. Red pepper food with ripe plantains is a meal from the local cuisine of the Northern part of Cameroon spreading to other regions, notably the Center region and the West region.

Cameroon – Grilled Fish and Parte

Cameroon has a very large body of water, around Limbe we have the sea that goes into the ocean. But fish is mostly harvested from the ocean by huge companies like Congelcam. Most people in my country will rather choose fish over meat because it is cheap and more available and it is also very nutritional. I like grill fish and I hope you do too.

Cameroon – Black Beans and Dodo

Bean is a common seed crop which is cultivated almost in all regions of Cameroon. Beans are cultivated in both the raining season as well as the dry season in Cameroon thus there is an abundant of beans in the country. Black beans and dodo is a delicious meal loved by many and eaten at anytime as it can be taken as breakfast.

Cameroon – Raffia Palm Seeds With Thong Fish

Raffia Palm seeds is another type of palm that is grown up here locally. The seed is being eaten after a series of boiling. Just eating the raffia palm seeds is very good, then eating it thong fish gives it an exceptional taste. Raffia palm seeds with thong fish is cooked in the locality of the Tiko in the south West region of Cameroon.

Cameroon – Fried Fish With Potato Chips and Salade

Fried fish with potato chips and salade is a food good for taking of a snack among friends, work colleagues and people we are close to. This dish has an eating process and procedure which comes in a form of an order. Fried fish with potato chips and salade is prepared in the Center region of Cameroon.