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Guinean Sauce Feuille

Name: Guinean Sauce Feuille
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Guinea
Ingredients: 3 bunches Spinach; 400g Beef Round; 4 tbsp Palm oil; 1 Onion; 2 tbsp Peanut butter; 1 Chili pepper; 1 tsp Salt; 800ml Water

Main Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Pounded cassava leaves stewed with beef and palm oil — Guinea's signature sauce.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Sauce feuille means 'leaf sauce' in French and is one of Guinea's best-loved dishes. Cassava leaves are pounded and stewed for a long time with beef, smoked fish, and palm oil. The deep green sauce is poured over white rice.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Guinean courtyard, cassava leaves are pounded in a mortar, and a deep green sauce stewed in a big pot is poured over white rice.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Spinach 3 bunches
Beef Round 400g
Palm oil 4 tbsp
Onion 1
Peanut butter 2 tbsp
Chili pepper 1
Salt 1 tsp
Water 800ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the beef into bite-size pieces and boil with water and a little salt for 30 minutes.
Blanch the spinach, squeeze dry, and chop finely or blend.
Heat the palm oil in a pot and sauté the chopped onion.
Add the beef and its cooking liquid, the spinach, chili, and peanut butter and stew 20 minutes.
Season with salt and pour over white rice.

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