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🇱🇷 Traditional dishes from Liberia

3 dishes people actually cook in Liberia: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.

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Cassava bread

90 min · medium · 4 ingredients

Cassava bread, a traditional dish from Liberia

Enjoy the delightful taste of Liberian cassava bread!

  • 500 g cassava
  • 250 ml water
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 200 ml coconut milk

Jollof rice

60 min · medium · 11 ingredients

Jollof rice, a traditional dish from Liberia

Savor the rich flavors of Liberian Jollof rice!

  • 400 g long-grain rice
  • 100 ml vegetable oil
  • 1 onion
  • 1 red bell pepper
  • 70 g tomato paste
  • 500 ml chicken broth
  • 3 garlic
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 1 scotch bonnet pepper

Palava sauce

30 min · medium · 9 ingredients

Palava sauce, a traditional dish from Liberia

A rich and flavorful sauce perfect for any meal!

  • 2 red bell pepper
  • 1 onion
  • 4 garlic
  • 60 ml vegetable oil
  • 100 g tomato paste
  • 500 ml chicken broth
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 1 tsp cayenne pepper

What do people eat in Liberia?

The three dishes from Liberia documented in Copper are Cassava bread, Jollof rice and Palava sauce. Chicken broth and garlic each appear in more than one recipe. Two of the three are fried. One of the three needs an oven. Between them they use 15 different ingredients.

What ingredients do you need for cooking from Liberia?

The three recipes need 15 ingredients between them, of which 5 are shared by more than one dish. Chicken broth and red bell pepper are the hardest to find: of the 588 dishes in Copper's atlas, 21 use chicken broth and 11 use red bell pepper. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.

How long do recipes from Liberia take?

Palava sauce is the quickest at 30 minutes. Cassava bread is the longest at 90 minutes. The median is 60 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.

Which dish from Liberia is easiest to make at home?

None of the dishes from Liberia here is rated easy, but every one has the full method written out step by step, free to read. Palava sauce is the shortest way in.

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