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Fakoye

Name: Fakoye
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Mali
Ingredients: 2 bunches Molokhia; 300g Lamb; 1 Onion; 2 cloves Garlic; 1 tbsp Tomato paste; 2 tbsp Vegetable oil; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 600ml Water; To taste Cooked rice

Side Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Powdered jute leaves cooked with meat into a stretchy sauce — a dish of northern Mali.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Fakoye is a dish of the Songhai people around Gao and Timbuktu in northern Mali: dried, powdered molokhia (jute) leaves are stewed with lamb into a stretchy green sauce served over white rice. Using leaves that keep in the dry lands, it was born of ingenuity.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a house in a town near the desert in northern Mali, stretchy green sauce is poured over white rice as the family gathers in an earthen-walled room.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Molokhia 2 bunches
Lamb 300g
Onion 1
Garlic 2 cloves
Tomato paste 1 tbsp
Vegetable oil 2 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Water 600ml
Cooked rice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Heat oil in a pot and sauté the small pieces of lamb with the onion and garlic.
Add the tomato paste, water, salt, and pepper and simmer 40 minutes.
Pick the molokhia leaves and chop finely.
Add to the pot and simmer 10 minutes, stirring, until stretchy.
Pour over rice to eat.

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