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Dakouin

Name: Dakouin
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Benin
Ingredients: 200g Couscous; 2 Tomato; 1/2 Onion; 1/2 Chili pepper; 2 tbsp Palm oil; 1 tsp Salt; 300ml Water; 2 pieces (fried) White Fish Fillet

Side Dish

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Gari (cassava granules) worked into a tomato broth — Benin's staple to go with fried fish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Dakouin is a dish of Benin's southern coast: gari (dried cassava granules) is stirred into a hot broth of tomato, onion, and fish stock and worked into a reddish paste. It's eaten with fried or grilled fish and moyo (tomato sauce). It's a quick, homestyle dish.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a seaside eatery in Cotonou, red paste, fried fish, and tomato sauce share a plate to the sound of the waves.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Couscous 200g
Tomato 2
Onion 1/2
Chili pepper 1/2
Palm oil 2 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 300ml
White Fish Fillet 2 pieces (fried)

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Finely chop the tomato, onion, and chili.
Heat the palm oil in a pot, sauté the vegetables, add water and salt, and simmer 5 minutes.
Turn off the heat, add the couscous, and mix.
Cover, let steam 5 minutes, and work together with a wooden spoon.
Serve with fried fish.

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