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Beninese Cuisine

↳ from Cotonou, Benin

Benin cooks with maize paste (pâte), yam pounded (igname pilée) and peppery sauces. Beignets and akassa are regular breakfast foods.

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Specialties

Pâte Rouge
Akassa

History

The Dahomey kingdom's court cuisine mixed palm oil, maize and fish, and the Fon and Yoruba peoples have their own dishes.

Ingredients

Maize flour
Yam
Cassava
Palm oil
Fish
Tomato
Chilli

How it's made

Stir maize flour into a thick paste
Cook sauce with tomato, pepper and fish
Serve the paste with the sauce
Add fried fish or chicken

to drink

What Benin drinks

Tchoukoutou (sorghum beer), sodabi (palm spirit)

Ratings & notes

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