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Babenda

Name: Babenda
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Burkina Faso
Ingredients: 2 bunches Spinach; 100g Rice; 2 tbsp Peanut butter; 15g Dried shrimp; 1 tbsp Miso; 1 Onion; 2 tbsp Vegetable oil; 1/2 tsp Salt; 800ml Water

Main Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Bitter greens simmered with broken rice and soumbala — a traditional dish of Burkina Faso.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Babenda is a traditional dish of the Mossi people of Burkina Faso: bitter greens (sorrel, hibiscus leaves, and others) are stewed thick with broken rice, peanuts, dried fish, and soumbala, a fermented seed seasoning. Once considered a lean-season dish, it's now cherished as a nostalgic regional taste.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a village home in Burkina Faso, a pot of greens and rice simmers over charcoal and is stirred with a wooden spoon.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Spinach 2 bunches
Rice 100g
Peanut butter 2 tbsp
Dried shrimp 15g
Miso 1 tbsp
Onion 1
Vegetable oil 2 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Water 800ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rinse the rice and crush it lightly in a mortar.
Simmer the water, rice, dried shrimp, and chopped onion in a pot for 15 minutes.
Add the roughly chopped spinach and simmer 10 minutes.
Stir in the peanut butter and miso.
Season with oil and salt and simmer 10 minutes until thick.

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