Gambian cuisine explained
The Gambia doesn't actually have its own cuisine, the food that is to be found there stems mostly from neighboring Senegal, whose cuisine is French-influenced. Common ingredients include fish, rice, peanuts, tomato, black-eyed peas, lemon, cassava, cabbage, potato, pumpkin, garden egg, lettuces, rice, couscous, corn, findi, salt, pepper, onion, chili, and various herbs. Oysters are also a popular food from the River Gambia, and are harvested by women.[1]
Dishes
- Benachin another name for thieboudienne is a Senegalese dish traditionally cooked in one pot (the practice giving it its name). Various ingredients including fish or meat are added, seasoned with herbs, lemon juice, basil, aubergine, parsley, onion, chili, tomato, pumpkin, carrot, cabbage, cassava, Pepper, garden egg, dry fish, vegetable oil, and water, with tomato paste sometimes added for color[1]
- Caldo is a lemon-flavored steamed whole-fish dish, a variation of yassa. Jorto or sompat are usually used[1]
- Domoda, a Mandinka dish made with concentrated peanut paste, meat or fish seasoned with salt, medium onion, fresh tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, medium cabbage, water, tomato paste, lemon juice, soup stock, and white rice. Domo means eating and Da is the word for a stew pot[1]
- Mbahal or Nyankatang a smoked and salted fish dish prepared with groundnuts, locust bean or black-eyed beans, spring onion, fresh chilies, white rice, and bitter tomato or jattoo[1]
- Nyambeh nyebbeh, a cassava and bean dish made with oils, onion, chili, soup stock, salt, pepper, water and fried snapper[1]
- Peppersoup, a spicy fish stew.
- Yassa is a lemon whole-chicken or fish dish made with salt, pepper, onion, clove, garlic, mustard, chili sauce, lime juice, rice and water (if making it with chicken)[1]
- Fish balls made with ground bonga, onion, tomato, breadcrumbs, parsley, black pepper, oil, soup stock, tomato paste, chilis and white rice[1]
- Maafe a Mandinka dish made from peanut paste and various vegetables.
- Oyster stew[1]
- Thiakry, a sweet dish made from couscous (wheat or millet), milk (or sweetened condensed milk or yogurt), and spices; chakery is a couscous pudding
https://www.gambia.co.uk/blog/traditional-gambian-food-and-drink
References
Notes and References
- http://www.visitthegambia.gm/gambia-cuisine-National-Dishes.htmlNational Dishes
