Togo recipes

Gboma Dessi from the small African country Togo contains big loads of green spinach in a tomato stew with a distinct flavor profile. Fried chicken or beef is mixed in as well. That's the kind of comfort food that you can't stop eating. We just love it! Originally, the meat for Gboma Dessi is cooked before it's seasoned and fried. If you can take the time for this version (see instructions for the long version below), it adds another level of deliciousness to the dish.

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In my humble opinion, there's never a bad time to throw down a heaping plate of hearty peanut stew, black eyed peas and spinach...which is exactly what I'm doing as I write this Togolese entry. My forlorn laptop is embarrassingly covered with sticky finger prints, flour, and now peanut butter - but it's all good! Deceptively easy to prepare, this stew is both healthy and tasty, as the chicken breasts are steamed, then added to a lightly sauteed combination of onions, garlic, a dash of hot…

Trying toothsome Togolese foods should be high on your to-do list. Read this post to know why. Prepare for the amazing feasts that they can give you.

Chinese Five-spice Powder. This is the classic Chinese spice powder made from cinnamon, fennel seeds, Sichuan peppercorns, star anise and cloves that is an essential ingredient in many Chinese dishes. A pinch added to any sauce or stew will help lift the flavour.

Ingredient - Fish - 2 cups cornmeal - 1 can of tomato paste - Stock cubes - 2 tablespoon flour - 1 tablespoon parsley - 1 tablespoon of ginger - 1 tablespoon of garlic - 2 onion bulbs - 2 large tomatoes - Pepper - Salt - Oil Method - Put a pot on the fire without any drop of water on it, add the flour and stir it consistently on until it changes color, and allow to cool. - Season the fish to taste, add clove of crushed garlic, ginger, flour, salt and pepper. Mix all together, brush the fish…

In Togo, corn is everything, ever. Sometimes it is served as porridge. And sometimes it's served as Djenkoume, a.k.a. cornmeal cakes, a.k.a. edible sand castles. Djenkoume is a cornmeal, tomato, and red palm oil corn cake, rather like polenta. But there's so much more about the dish... there's onion, garlic, and ginger in the mix. And a mound of homemade, spiced tomato sauce.

This warming chicken and peanut stew recipe from Mé Lon Togo in Rockland, Maine, is full of authentic West African flavor.

Taste of Africa Dish # 5 : Gari Foto with Corned Beef ~ A cooking collaboration with Taste of Africa, which will help more than 20 West African companies connect to buyers across the U.S. in this year's Fancy Food Show in Washington, DC - July 10-12. Funded through USAID's West Africa Trade Hub and Southern Africa Global Competitiveness Hub, the Association Africa Agro-Export and other partners. Gari, a fine, coarse granular flour of varying textures, is made from the grated cassava tuber. A…

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