Rice with palm butter or pepper soup, cassava, and fried plantain. Liberian cooking mixes local and American-descendant influences.
Specialties
- Palm Butter Soup
- Jollof (Liberia)
History
Liberia was founded by freed African Americans in 1822, whose cooking merged with local food traditions.
Ingredients
- Rice
- Palm butter
- Cassava
- Plantain
- Fish
- Chicken
- Chilli
How it's made
- Boil palm nuts and pound to get palm butter
- Cook the soup with meat and fish
- Serve with rice or fufu
- Add pepper sauce
Photos: ingredients, making & serving
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What Liberia drinks
Ginger beer, palm wine, Club beer
Ratings & notes
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