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Afra

Name: Afra
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: The Gambia
Ingredients: 500g Beef; 2 Onion; 2 tbsp Mustard; 1 Chili pepper; 1 tbsp Vinegar; 2 tbsp Vegetable oil; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; To taste Baguette

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Beef or lamb grilled over charcoal with onion-mustard sauce — a Gambian night-stall dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Afra is the specialty of Gambian night stalls: beef or lamb is grilled over charcoal and served with a sauce of sliced onion, mustard, and chili. On weekend nights, people gather at charcoal stalls along the streets to buy freshly grilled meat with bread.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Gambian street at night, meat grills in the charcoal smoke and is wrapped in paper with onion sauce and handed over.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Beef 500g
Onion 2
Mustard 2 tbsp
Chili pepper 1
Vinegar 1 tbsp
Vegetable oil 2 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Baguette To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the beef into bite-size pieces and toss with salt, pepper, and oil.
Grill over charcoal or under a grill, turning.
Sauté the sliced onion in a frying pan until soft.
Add the mustard, vinegar, and chopped chili to make a sauce.
Pour the sauce over the grilled meat and serve with bread.

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