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 Gabonese Coconut Candy

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Gabonese Coconut Candy

Dessert
⏱ 40 min
👥 Serves 8
Difficulty ⭐

Grated coconut cooked down with sugar and set — a sweet treat for Gabonese children.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

In Gabon, where coconut palms line the Atlantic coast, 'tablette coco' — grated coconut cooked down with sugar and left to set — is a children's treat sold outside schools and at markets. It's sometimes scented with ginger or vanilla.

🌆 Where it's eaten: Outside a school in Libreville, coconut sweets lined up in a small basket are handed one by one to children.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

👩‍🍳 Instructions

  1. Heat the sugar and water in a pot until the sugar dissolves.

  2. Add the grated ginger and coconut.

  3. Cook down over medium heat for 10 minutes, stirring, until the liquid is gone and it turns sticky.

  4. Add the vanilla and drop small spoonfuls onto baking paper.

  5. Cool to set.

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