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Foutou with Sauce Graine

Name: Foutou with Sauce Graine
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Côte d'Ivoire
Ingredients: 3 (green) Plantain; 300g Cassava (frozen); 5 tbsp Palm oil; 500g Chicken Thigh; 2 White Fish Fillet; 1 Onion; 2 Tomato; 1 Eggplant; 6 Okra; 2 Red Chili Pepper; 2 tsp Salt

Main Dish

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Chewy pounded plantain and cassava foutou eaten with red palm-nut sauce — a traditional Ivorian dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Foutou is an Ivorian staple of boiled plantain, cassava, or yam pounded in a mortar into a mochi-like dough. Sauce graine is a rich orange sauce made by cooking down the pulp of palm nuts, with fish or meat stewed in it. Pieces of foutou are torn off and dipped in the sauce.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At Sunday lunch in a village yard, women pound foutou in rhythm with pestle and mortar and serve it to the family with a big pot of red sauce.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Plantain 3 (green)
Cassava (frozen) 300g
Palm oil 5 tbsp
Chicken Thigh 500g
White Fish Fillet 2
Onion 1
Tomato 2
Eggplant 1
Okra 6
Red Chili Pepper 2
Salt 2 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Simmer the chicken, onion, salt, and 1L water in a pot for 20 minutes.
Add the palm oil, chopped tomatoes, eggplant, and red chili and simmer 20 minutes.
Add the white fish and okra, simmer 10 minutes, and season with salt.
Boil the plantains and cassava separately until tender.
While hot, pound in a mortar or food processor into a smooth, mochi-like dough.
Shape the foutou into balls, place in bowls, and serve with the sauce.

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