Cameroonian cuisine
Cameroonian cuisine (French: cuisine camerounaise) is one of the most varied in Africa due to Cameroon's location on the crossroads between the north, west, and center of the continent; the diversity in ethnicity with mixture ranging from Bantus, Semi-bantus and Shuwa Arabs, as well as the influence of German, French and English colonialization.
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Ingredients
The soil of most of the country is very fertile and a wide variety of vegetables and fruits, both domestic and imported species, are grown. These include:
Specialties
Among Cameroonian specialties are:
- Fufu corn and njama njama (garden huckleberry leaves)
- Brochettes, known locally as soya (a kind of barbecued kebab made from chicken, beef, or goat)
- Sangah (a mixture of maize, cassava leaf, and palm nut juice)
- Mbanga soup and kwacoco
- Eru and water fufu
- Ndolé (a spicy stew containing bitterleaf greens, meat, shrimp, pork rind, and peanut paste)
- Koki (food) (primarily consisting of blackeyed peas and red palm oil)
- Koki fritter
- Koki (Niébé cake)
- Base product
- Achu soup (cocoyam fufu with an orange/yellow red palm oil soup)
- Mbongo'o tjobi (a spicy black soup made with native herbs and spices)
- Egusi soup (ground pumpkin seeds often cooked with dark leafy greens or okra)
- Kondreh (stewed unripe plantains with herbs and spices, usually cooked with goat meat)
- Kati kati, a grilled chicken dish[1][2][3] and traditional food of the Kom.[4]
Curries, soups and fish dishes abound, as well as meats on skewers. Insects are eaten in some parts of the country (particularly the forested regions).
See also
References
- Kouega, Jean-Paul (November 26, 2007). A Dictionary of Cameroon English Usage. Peter Lang. ISBN 9783039110278 – via Google Books.
- Planet, Lonely; Ham, Anthony; Grosberg, Michael; Luckham, Nana; Maric, Vesna; Ranger, Helen; Sieg, Caroline; Smith, Helena; Louis, Regis St; Stiles, Paul; Butler, Stuart (September 1, 2017). Lonely Planet West Africa. Lonely Planet. ISBN 9781787012462 – via Google Books.
- Nde, Nkwentie, Susan (March 16, 2014). The Mirror and Nine Other Short Stories. Langaa RPCIG. ISBN 9789956791552 – via Google Books.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Loh, Choves (January 31, 2018). "Cameroon: Laikom - the Bedrock of Kom Culture". allAfrica.com.
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