3 dishes people actually cook in Gabon: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from Gabon? 3 traditional Gabon dishes, from Soupe de poisson (45 min, the quickest) to Nyembwe (120 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
Gabon on the map. Drag to spin the planet.
Cassava and green plantain steamed together then pounded in a mortar until the paste turns smooth and elastic.
Gabon's national dish: smoked chicken simmered in the thick pulp pressed from boiled palm nuts, not in palm oil.
A Gabonese fish bouillon whose broth is made by the fish itself, with bitter white african eggplants, okra and whole chillies.
Copper documents three dishes from Gabon: Fufu, Nyembwe and Soupe de poisson. Garlic and onion each appear in more than one recipe. All three are boiled. Not one needs an oven — they cook entirely on the hob. Between them they use 16 different ingredients.
The three recipes need 16 ingredients between them, of which 2 are shared by more than one dish. Copper's atlas covers 586 dishes from 198 countries, and these three are the Gabon entries. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Soupe de poisson is the quickest at 45 minutes. Nyembwe is the longest at 120 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 60 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
Soupe de poisson is rated easy — start there. The full method is on its recipe page, step by step, free to read.
Gabon is part of Central African.
Countries close to Gabon on the globe — and close on the plate.
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