2 dishes people actually cook in Burkina Faso: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from Burkina Faso? 2 traditional Burkina Faso dishes, from To (55 min, the quickest) to Riz gras (100 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
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Ouagadougou rice cooked directly in a red meat-and-vegetable broth flavoured with soumbala, the fermented néré seed condiment that gives the dish its smell.
A firm sorghum or millet paste beaten with a stick until smooth and elastic, eaten with the hand and dipped in a salty okra sauce, never sweetened.
Copper documents two dishes from Burkina Faso: Riz gras and To. Onion and soumbala each appear in more than one recipe. All two are simmered. Not one needs an oven — they cook entirely on the hob. Between them they use 17 different ingredients.
The two recipes need 17 ingredients between them, of which 2 are shared by more than one dish. Soumbala the hardest to find: of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas, 4 use soumbala. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
To is the quickest at 55 minutes. Riz gras is the longest at 100 minutes. The median is 100 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
None of the dishes from Burkina Faso here is rated easy, but every one has the full method written out step by step, free to read. To is the shortest way in.
Burkina Faso is part of West African.
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