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Aloko

Name: Aloko
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Côte d'Ivoire
Ingredients: 3 (ripe) Plantain; To taste Oil for frying; A pinch Salt; 1/2 Onion; 1 Tomato; 1 Green Chili Pepper; 2 Hard-boiled eggs

Side Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Ripe plantain sliced, fried, and served with chili sauce — Côte d'Ivoire's national snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Aloko is fried ripe plantain (cooking banana), a national dish of Côte d'Ivoire. Fried and sold by the roadside, it's eaten with onion and chili sauce, fried fish, or boiled eggs. In Abidjan there are even places called 'alocodromes' where aloko stalls gather at night.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On an Abidjan street corner at dusk, women fry plantain in big pots as people drawn by the sweet scent walk by with paper bags.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Plantain 3 (ripe)
Oil for frying To taste
Salt A pinch
Onion 1/2
Tomato 1
Green Chili Pepper 1
Hard-boiled eggs 2

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Peel the plantains and cut into 1.5cm rounds or on the diagonal.
Fry in 170°C oil until deep golden on both sides.
Drain and sprinkle with salt.
Finely chop the onion, tomato, and green chili and toss with salt to make a sauce.
Halve the boiled eggs.
Serve the aloko with the sauce and eggs.

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