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Malian Cuisine

↳ from Bamako, Mali

A Sahel cuisine: millet and rice with peanut or leaf sauces, grilled meat, river fish and the sour baobab drink bissap and bouye.

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Specialties

History

The Mali Empire (13th-16th centuries) was rich from gold and trade. Staples like millet, sorghum and rice come from Niger river farming.

Ingredients

  • Rice
  • Millet
  • Peanuts
  • Okra
  • Fish
  • Baobab
  • Shea butter
  • Hibiscus

How it's made

  1. Cook a sauce of leaves, peanuts or okra
  2. Cook rice or millet
  3. Serve with grilled meat
  4. Drink bissap or ginger juice
to drink

What Mali drinks

Bissap (hibiscus), bouye (baobab), ginger drink, green tea

Ratings & notes

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