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Dockounou

Name: Dockounou
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Côte d'Ivoire
Ingredients: 250g Precooked Corn Flour; 3 (very ripe) Bananas; 80g Sugar; A pinch Salt; 150ml Water; To taste Banana Leaves (or foil)

Dessert

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Cornmeal and ripe banana wrapped in banana leaves and steamed — a simple Ivorian steamed sweet.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Dockounou is a traditional sweet of cornmeal, mashed ripe banana, and sugar wrapped in banana leaves and steamed. With its chewy texture and natural sweetness, it's eaten for breakfast or as a snack. In villages you often see women selling leaf-wrapped dockounou at the market.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a village market in the morning, a woman walks around selling dockounou from a basket of banana-leaf bundles balanced on her head.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Precooked Corn Flour 250g
Bananas 3 (very ripe)
Sugar 80g
Salt A pinch
Water 150ml
Banana Leaves (or foil) To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mash the bananas smooth.
Add the cornmeal, sugar, and salt and work in water a little at a time to make a thick dough.
Dip the banana leaves in boiling water to soften.
Place 3 tbsp dough on each leaf, wrap, and tie with string.
Steam for 40–50 minutes.
Serve on a plate in their leaves.

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